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Quaternary Geochronology (2012) Sous presse
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Late Holocene sea-cliff retreat recorded by 10Be profiles across a coastal platform: Theory and example from the English Channel
Vincent Regard 1, Thomas Dewez 2, D.L. Bourles 3, H. Anderson 4, Anne Duperret 5, Stéphane Costa 6, Laetitia Leanni 3, Eric Lasseur 2, Kevin Pedoja 7, Grégoire M. Maillet 8
(07/03/2012)

We explore a new method for documenting the long term retreat rate of sea cliffs based on measurements and modeling of 10Be concentration transects across present-day shore platforms. The proposed forward numerical model relies on a scenario of sea level rise since the last deglaciation, and predicts the shape of 10Be concentration transects as a function of prescribed cliff recession and vertical coastal platform downwearing rates. Two independent transect features allow fitting the long-term recession rate model to field observations: a sharp 10Be concentration drop predicted at the former stationary location of the cliff during the last glacial period ~100 ka ago, and a characteristic dome shape whose magnitude is directly related to the recession rate of the cliff. A retreating chalk cliff site from the English Channel coast of France, at Mesnil Val, where the 7 m tidal range broadly exposes the shore platform, was selected to test the proposed method. Although retreat rates were too high to pinpoint the predicted 10Be concentration drop at the last glacial cliff position, the 10Be-concentration of the flints sampled across the shore platform are consistent with the expected dome shape. When modeled using the proper tidal range and proposed Holocene sea level rise history, the 10Be data yield a cliff retreat rate since the mid-Holocene of 11-13 cm/yr. This is consistent with a 30-year-long measurement record, strongly supporting the utility of the 10Be method.
1 :  Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET)
CNRS : UMR5563 – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR239 – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
2 :  Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM)
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
3 :  Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE)
CNRS : UMR6635 – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] – INSU – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III
4 :  Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research
University of Colorado at Boulder
5 :  Laboratoire d'Ondes et Milieux Complexes (LOMC FRE 3102)
Université du Havre
6 :  Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique (LETG - Géophen)
CNRS : UMR6554 – Université de Nantes – Université de Bretagne Occidentale [UBO] – Université de Rennes II - Haute Bretagne – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Université d'Angers
7 :  Morphodynamique continentale et côtière (MCC)
CNRS : UMR6143 – INSU – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Université de Rouen
8 :  Laboratoire “Paysages & Biodiversité” (PPF DS10)
Université d'Angers
Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Géomorphologie
Seacliff – Cliff retreat – Shore platform – Beryllium-10 – Holocene – Sea-level – Downwearing
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