Abstract
In support of efforts to reconstruct relative sea level (RSL), we investigated the utility of foraminifera, diatoms and bulk-sediment geochemistry (δ13C, C:N and parameters measured by Rock-Eval pyrolysis) as sea-level indicators in Eurasian sub-Arctic salt marshes. At three salt marshes (<15 km apart)="" in="" dvina="" bay="" (white="" sea,="" russia),="" we="" collected="" surface="" sediment="" samples="" along="" transects="" from="" subtidal="" to="" taiga="" forest="" environments.="" foraminifera="" at="" all="" sites="" formed="" bipartite="" assemblages,="" where="" elevations="" below="" mean="" high="" higher="" water="" (mhhw)="" were="" dominated="">