Global implications of lower to middle Eocene sequence boundaries on the New Jersey coastal plain: The icehouse cometh

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 639-642

  Browning, James V ^a   Miller, Kenneth G ^a,b   Pak, Dorothy K ^b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; WAREHOUSES;

COASTAL PLAIN; EARLY EOCENE; ICE SHEET; ICE VOLUMES; ICE-CAPS; NEW JERSEY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY;

ICE;

COASTAL PLAIN; EOCENE; GLACIOEUSTACY; HIATUS; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; GLACIOEUSTASY; PALAEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0030470222     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0639:GIOLTM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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