Response of mobile bay and eastern Mississippi sound, Alabama, to changes in sediment accommodation and accumulation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 13-29

  Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Greene Jr , D Lawrence ^b   Anderson, John B ^c   Simms, Alexander R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ConocoPhillips ^*  (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayhead delta; Climate change; Estuary; Holocene; Sea level

Indexed keywords

BAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DELTA; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; ESTUARY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ALABAMA; MISSISSIPPI SOUND; MOBILE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549226261     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2443(02)     Document Type: Review

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