Paleoenvironmental evidence for latest Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations on the New Jersey outer continental shelf: Combining high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and foraminiferal analysis

Marine Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 287-304

  Buck, Keith F ^a,b   Olson, Hilary C ^b   Austin Jr , James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Channels; Foraminifera; New Jersey shelf; Sea level fluctuations

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033514325     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00119-4     Document Type: Article

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