Sea-level changes over the past 1,000 years in the Pacific

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Nunn, Patrick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Anomalous dates; Last millennium; Little Climatic Optimum; Little Ice Age; Pacific islands

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0031890813     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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