Chronology of the sedimentary processes during the postglacial sea level rise in two estuaries of the Algarve coast, Southern Portugal

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 230-244

  Boski, T ^a   Camacho, S ^a   Moura, D ^a   Fletcher, W ^b   Wilamowski, A ^c   Veiga Pires, C ^a   Correia, V ^a   Loureiro, C ^a   Santana, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; climate change; estuary; foraminifera; Gulf of Cadiz; sea level rise; sedimentary record

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEONTOLOGY; POSTGLACIAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

ALGARVE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF CADIZ; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 39749153553     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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