The importance of sea-level and climate change, including changing wind energy, on the evolution of a coastal estuary: Copano Bay, Texas

Marine Geology

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Troiani, B T ^a   Simms, A R ^a,e   Dellapenna, T ^b   Piper, E ^b   Yokoyama, Y ^c,d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Deparment of Marine Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

8.2ka event; Climate; Coastal geology; Estuaries; Grain size; Holocene; Paleo winds

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; SEA LEVEL; WIND; WIND POWER;

8.2KA EVENT; CLIMATE; COASTAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL LANDFORM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CORE; TRANSGRESSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND POWER;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951672054     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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