Reply to comment by C. Morhange, C. Flaux, PA Pirazzoli, M.B. Carre on 'Holocene Sea level Change in Malta'

摘要

Dear Editor, we are thankful to C. Morhange, C. Flaux, P.A. Pirazzoli and M.B. Carre for their comments to our paper: "Holo-cene Sea Level Change in Malta". The paper addressed reconstruction of sea level changes in the island of Malta and vertical tectonic movements during the Holocene. Based on this evidence, we proposed a reconstruction of palaeoshorelines since 20 ka BP. We want to underline that our aim was not that of reconstructing the sea level curve for this area, but comparing the measures collected on the submerged archaeological remains against the predicted sea level curve model suggested by Lambeck et al. (2011). In this paper, we used the only coastal archeological remains presently known in the study area. In the following section, we clarify some aspects of the results obtained and the evidence supporting our interpretation.