Upper Cretaceous sequences and sea-level history, New Jersey Coastal Plain

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 368-393

  Miller, Kenneth G ^a   Sugarman, Peter J ^b   Browning, James V ^a   Kominz, Michelle A ^c   Olsson, Richard K ^a   Feigenson, Mark D ^a   Hernández, John C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Geological Survey   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backstripping; Eustasy; Late Cretaceous; New Jersey Coastal Plain; Sea level history; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEDEPTH VARIATION;

CROPS; ICE; QUARTZ; SAND; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL PLAIN; CRETACEOUS; EUSTACY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842585555     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25279.1     Document Type: Article

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