Bay-head deltas across the northern Gulf of Mexico back step in response to the 8.2ka cooling event

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3983-3993

  Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Simms, Alexander R ^b   Anderson, John B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK STEP; DELTA PLAIN; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LOW-AMPLITUDE; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEISMIC DATAS; TIME-PERIODS;

GLOBAL WARMING; SEISMOLOGY;

ESTUARIES;

BAY; COOLING; DELTA; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; SHORELINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 78549279076     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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