Late Pleistocene Sea level on the New Jersey Margin: Implications to eustasy and deep-sea temperature

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 93-99

  Wright, James D ^a   Sheridan, Robert E ^a   Miller, Kenneth G ^a   Uptegrove, Jane ^b   Cramer, Benjamin S ^c   Browning, James V ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Geological Survey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; sea level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; DEEP SEA; EUSTACY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARAKI; ASIA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; LESSER ANTILLES; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MELANESIA; NEW GUINEA; NEW JERSEY MARGIN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VANUATU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 61749085372     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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