Reconstructing Holocene sea level using salt-marsh foraminifera and transfer functions: Lessons from New Jersey, USA

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 617-629

  Kemp, Andrew C ^a,g   Telford, Richard J ^b,c   Horton, Benjamin P ^d,e   Anisfeld, Shimon C ^a   Sommerfield, Christopher K ^f  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^g TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogue matching; Barnegat Bay; Leave one site out cross validation; Partitioning; Sea level indicators; Weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARTITIONING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BARNEGAT BAY; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884200308     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2657     Document Type: Article

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