Record of dramatic Holocene environmental changes linked to eustasy and climate change in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-63

  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

Antecedent topography; Estuary; Incised valley; Quaternary; Transgression

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; LAKES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; INCISED VALLEY; INTERVENING PERIOD; QUATERNARY; TRANSGRESSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARY; EUSTACY; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

CALCASIEU LAKE; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549192083     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2443(04)     Document Type: Article

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