Introducing WALIS, the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines Version 1.0
Channel: Alessio Rovere
Date: 2022-05-26

We present Version 1.0 of the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS), a global database containing samples and sea-level proxies dated to Marine Isotope Stage 5 (~70 to 130 ka). The database was built through manuscripts and associated datasets compiled in a Special Issue of the journal Earth System Science data (https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/special_issue1055.html). We collated the single contributions (archived in Zenodo at this link: https://zenodo.org/communities/walis_database/) into an open-access standalone database. Database documentation is available at this link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961544. Version 1.0 of the database contains 4005 sea-level index points and 4390 dated samples connected with several tables containing relevant metadata (e.g., elevation measurement techniques, sea-level datums, and literature references).
Cite as: Rovere, A., Ryan, D. D., Vacchi, M., Dutton, A., Simms, A., and Murray-Wallace, C.: Introducing WALIS, the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines Version 1.0, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-2489, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2489, 2022.