Mid to late Holocene sea-level reconstruction of Southeast Vietnam using beachrock and beach-ridge deposits

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 214-222

  Stattegger, Karl ^a   Tjallingii, Rik ^b   Saito, Yoshiki ^c   Michelli, Maximiliano ^a   Trung Thanh, Nguyen ^d   Wetzel, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Holocene; Mid Holocene sea level highstand; Sea level; Southeast Vietnam coast

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; MID-HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL HIGHSTAND; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION;

BEACHES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; FLOODS;

SEA LEVEL;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; ISOSTASY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

MEKONG VALLEY; VIET NAM;

EID: 84888288710     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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