An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c14.s8.t2.16

v1.c14.s8.t2.16

Recent work on the Saurashtra peninsula on the raised coral reefs and beach rock has established that the fossil beaches and coral now lying between 2 and 6 m above the monsoon high-tide level are remnants of past glacio-eustatic high sea levels and have not emerged due to any tectonic uplift of the coast at least during the last 12,0000 years. Accordingly the ¹⁴C and Uranium-Thorium dates of high sea level in this coast would be c.