Tracking the Holocene evolution of Sabine Lake through the interplay of eustasy, antecedent topography, and sediment supply variations, Texas and Louisiana, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 65-88

  Milliken, K T ^a   Anderson, John B ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eustasy; Gulf of Mexico; Incised valley; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CONTROLLING MECHANISM; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUSTASY; GULF OF MEXICO; INCISED VALLEY; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; QUATERNARY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EUSTACY; FLOODING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE EVOLUTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549168421     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2443(05)     Document Type: Article

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