The use of
proxy sea-level reconstructions from coastal wetlands (e.g., Scott and
Medioli, 1978; Gehrels, 1994; Horton and Edwards, 2006) can be a solution
to the problem of a paucity of long tide-gauge records and their
insufficient spatial coverage (Douglas, 2008). In this paper, we use
foraminiferal data in a framework defined by radiocarbon and Pb-210
age estimates to describe mid to late Holocene coastal changes in the
Setiu estuary/lagoon (SEL) on the coast of Terengganu, northeastern
peninsular Malaysia (Fig. 1) and determine the relationship of
mangrove swamp foraminiferal assemblages to elevation to provide a
high-resolution sea-level curve over the past two centuries.