Marine evidence for episodic Holocene megafloods in North America and the northern Gulf of Mexico

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 498-510

  Brown, Paul ^a,c   Kennett, James P ^a   Ingram, B Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC EVENT; FLOOD; HOLOCENE; MARINE RECORD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOFLOOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY;

GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033376451     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900017     Document Type: Article

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