Timing and magnitude of Holocene sea-level changes along the middle and south Patagonian Atlantic coast derived from beach ridge systems, littoral terraces and valley-mouth terraces

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-30

  Schellmann, Gerhard ^a   Radtke, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beach ridges; Coastal deposits; Glacio isostasy; Holocene; Marine terraces; Patagonia; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; COASTAL ZONE; GLACIOISOSTASY; HOLOCENE; LITERATURE REVIEW; RIVER TERRACE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; TIDAL CHANNEL; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; PATAGONIA;

EID: 77958161066     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.06.003     Document Type: Review

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