Lucien F. Montaggioni

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors date fossil corals from Tahiti, which is far from plate boundaries and thus is likely to be tectonically relatively stable, and remote from the locations of large former ice sheets, and reveal that the meltwater pulse coincides with a short and intense climate cooling event that followed the initiation of the Bolling-Allerod warm period.

TL;DR: In this paper, a re-examination of the core dataset from the literature, with reconversion of many previously published radiocarbon ages into calendar dates, was carried out to identify seven framework and three detrital facies.

TL;DR: A detailed regional study of the Western Indian Ocean based on the analysis of drill cores carried out through modern reefs, in combination with observations and sampling of reef foreslopes, and investigations of outcrops provides a comprehensive data base.

TL;DR: Drill cores from the bamer reef-edge of Tahiti exhibit 85-93m-thick coralgal sequences recording at least 13,500 years of continuous reef growth in optimal environmental conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, sedimentological and chronological study of Holocene reef sequences recovered in drill cores through modern reefs of Mauritius, Reunion Island and Mayotte allows the reconstruction of sea level changes and reef growth patterns during the Holocene.