Drilling and dating New Jersey oligocene-miocene sequences: Ice volume, global sea level, and exxon records

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5252, 1996, Pages 1092-1095

  Miller, Kenneth G ^a,b   Mountain, Gregory S ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUSTATIC CHANGES; EXXON RECORD; EXXON RECORDS; ICE VOLUME; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

USA, NEW JERSEY;

EID: 0029778545     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5252.1092     Document Type: Article

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37. The Leg 150 shipboard party includes K. G. Miller and G S. Mountain; P. Blum and S. Gartner, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77845, USA; P.-G Alm, University of Lund, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden; M -P. Aubry, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier Cedex 5, France; L H Burckle, G Guerin, M E Katz, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, B. A Christensen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; J. Compton, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA; J. E Damuth, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; J.-F. Deconinck, Universite de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve D'Asq Cedex, France, L. deVerteuil, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada, C. S. Fulthorpe, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78759, USA, S. P. Hesseibo, University Of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK; B. Hoppie, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; N. Kotake, Chiba University, Chiba 263, Japan; J. M. Lorenzo, Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA; S. McCracken, University of Western Australia, Nederlands, 6009 Australia; C M. McHugh, Queen College, Flushing, NY 11367, USA; W C. Quayle, University of Newcastle, Newcastle on Tyne, NE1 7RU UK; Y. Saito, Geological Survey of Japan, Higashi 1-1-3, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan; S, W. Snyder, East Carolina State University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA: W. G. ten Kate, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; M. Urbat, Universitat zur Kolri, 500 Koln, Germany; W. C. Van Fossen, Rutgers University; and A. Vecsei, Geologisches Institut der Universitat, 79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany. The New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project includes K. G Miller; P. J Sugarman and L. Mullikin, New Jersey Geological Survey, Trenton, NJ 08625, USA; S Pekar, J. V. Browning, C. Liu, M. C. Van Fossen, M. D. Feigenson, M. Goss, D. Gwynn, Rutgers University; D. V. Kent and L. H Burckle, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; M.-P. Aubry, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; D Queen, D Powars, T. Heibel, U S Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092, USA; and D. Bukry, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
38. We thank three anonymous reviewers for comments. Supported by NSF grants OCE89-11810, OCE92-03282, and EAR92-18210 and by the Joint Oceanographic Institute of the U.S Science Advisory Council. This is Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory contribution 5456