Sea-level history of the Gulf of Mexico since the Last Glacial Maximum with implications for the melting history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 920-940

  Simms, Alexander R ^a   Lambeck, Kurt ^b   Purcell, Anthony ^b   Anderson, John B ^c   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHALLOW-MARINE DEPOSITS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIOISOSTASY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ISOSTASY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MELTING; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248359095     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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