Long-term and short-term global Cenozoic sea-level estimates

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-314

  Kominz, Michelle A ^a,b   Miller, Kenneth G ^a,c   Browning, James V ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; COASTAL PLAIN; EARLY EOCENE; EUSTATIC SIGNAL; LITHOSPHERIC; NEW JERSEY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SHORT TERM;

SEA LEVEL;

CENOZOIC; CORE ANALYSIS; EUSTACY; GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WATER DEPTH; CAINOZOIC; EUSTASY; SEA LEVEL;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES; ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031597343     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0311:LTASTG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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