Tent Manclús, José EnriqueEstévez, AntonioSoria, Jesús M.Benabdeloued, Nassim Y.B.Corbí, HugoRey Salgado, JorgePina, José AntonioYébenes, Alfonso2014-04-222014-04-222009http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7993High resolution seismic profiles of the Alicante continental shelf have been studied identifying a seismic prism which top at about -20 m below today sea-level. The prism is covered by recent sediments and can be interpreted as formed during a short interval of stand-by in the general transgression after the last glacial maximum. The -20 m level have been compared with the holocene Mediterranean sea-level-curve to propose an age of about 8 ka BP coinciding with the «8.2 ka cooling event» that was an abrupt, widespread climate instability. The prism top is deeper in the northern seismic profiles thus indicating a more subsidence that the southern coastal shelf where an erosion surface with rocky shoals configure the sea bottomspaAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Alicante continental shelf8.2 ka eventHoloceneHigh-resolution seismicSea-level changesjournal articleopen access