Holocene environmental and parasequence development of the St. Jones Estuary, Delaware (USA): Foraminiferal proxies of natural climatic and anthropogenic change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 590-607

  Leorri, E ^a   Martin, R ^a   McLaughlin, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaware; Estuaries; Foraminifera; Holocene; Marine transgression; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; ESTUARY; FORAMINIFERA; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; POSTGLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION;

DELAWARE; DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT JONES ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33750456202     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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