GPR investigation of multiple stage-5 sea-level fluctuations on a siliciclastic estuarine shoreline, Delaware Bay, southern New Jersey, USA

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 211, Issue , 2003, Pages 67-77

  O'Neal, Michael L ^a   Dunn, Richard K ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORWICH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HIGHSTAND; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

JONES;

EID: 0038448958     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.211.01.06     Document Type: Article

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