Compaction of Holocene strata and the implications for relative sealevel change on the east coast of England

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1083-1086

  Horton, Benjamin P ^a   Shennan, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION RATES; EAST COAST; EMPIRICAL DATA; ENGLAND; GLACIAL REBOUND; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENES; ISOSTATIC EFFECTS; LATE HOLOCENE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHORELINE EROSION; STUDY AREAS; UPWARD TREND; WETLAND LOSS;

ESTUARIES; PEAT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORE PROTECTION; WETLANDS;

COMPACTION;

BASAL AREA; COMPACTION; GLACIAL REBOUND; HOLOCENE; ISOSTASY; MARINE SEDIMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE;

ENGLAND; HUMBER ESTUARY; REDCAR AND CLEVELAND; TEES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 72149094065     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30042A.1     Document Type: Article

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