An attempt to reconcile subsidence rates determined from various techniques in southern Louisiana

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 15-16, 2008, Pages 1517-1522

  Meckel, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUIDS; GEODESY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY;

COMPACTION RATES; DATA-SETS; DEPRESSURIZATION; ELSEVIER (CO); FLUID WITHDRAWALS; GEODETIC DATA; HOLOCENE; IMPACT PROCESSES; LOUISIANA; ORDER-OF MAGNITUDES; RADIOCARBON DATA; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; SUBSIDENCE RATES; TIME FRAMES; TIME-SCALES;

SUBSIDENCE;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUBSIDENCE;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48149112779     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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