Rapid and widespread response of the Lower Mississippi River to eustatic forcing during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 690-704

  Shen, Zhixiong ^a   Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^a,b   Autin, Whitney J ^c   Mateo, Zenon Richard P ^d,f   Straub, Kyle M ^a   Mauz, Barbara ^e  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD PLAINS; FLUVIAL INCISION; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HOLOCENES; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PLEISTOCENE STRATA; SHORT REACTION TIME; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; STRATIGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

AGGRADATION; ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HIGHSTAND; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; QUARTZ; RIVER;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863510639     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30449.1     Document Type: Article

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