Rates and patterns of late Cenozoic denudation in the northernmost Atlantic Coastal Plain and Piedmont

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1422-1437

  Stanford, Scott D ^a   Ashley, Gail M ^b   Russell, Emily W B ^c   Brenner, Gilbert J ^d  

^a New Jersey Geological Survey   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Coastal Plain; Denudation; Eustasy; Landform evolution; Landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY;

COASTAL ZONES; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTS; SEEPAGE; STRATIGRAPHY;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

CENOZOIC; COASTAL PLAIN; DENUDATION; EUSTACY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036859951     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1422:RAPOLC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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