Evidence for a rapid sea-level rise 7600 yr ago

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 891-894

  Yu, Shi Yong ^a,c   Berglund, Björn E ^a   Sandgren, Per ^a   Lambeck, Kurt ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Crustal rebound; Holocene; Lake isolation; Laurentide Ice Sheet decay; Rapid sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL REBOUND; SEA LEVEL RISE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLACIAL REBOUND; HOLOCENE; ISOSTASY; SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 35449007531     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23859A.1     Document Type: Article

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