Global climate changes recorded in coastal wetland sediments: Empirical observations linked to theoretical predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Kolker, Alexander S ^a   Kirwan, Matthew L ^b,c   Goodbred, Steven L ^d   Cochran, J Kirk ^e  

^a LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FORECASTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIDES;

20TH CENTURY; ACCRETION RATE; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL WETLANDS; CONSTANT RATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; HUMAN IMPACT; MINERAL DEPOSITIONS; NEAR-EARTH; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TIDAL RANGES;

WETLANDS;

ACCRETION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL WETLAND; COMPOSITE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIDAL RANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955291916     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043874     Document Type: Article

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