Relative sea-level rise and the development of valley-fill and shallow-water sequences in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts

Marine Geology

Volumn 193, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 295-314

  Gutierrez, B T ^a,c   Uchupi, Elazar ^a   Driscoll, N W ^a,b   Aubrey, D G ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal embayment sediments; Fiuvial estuarine sediments; Glaciolacustrine sediments; Holocene sedimentation; Spring sapping valleys

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTS;

SUBMARINE SEDIMENTATION;

MARINE APPLICATIONS;

MARINE SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; TRANSGRESSION; VALLEY FILL;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037442683     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00665-5     Document Type: Article

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