The duxbury sunken forest-constraints for local, late holocene environmental changes resulting from marine transgression, duxbury bay, Eastern Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6 A, 2013, Pages 168-176

  Gontz, Allen M ^a   Maio, Christopher V ^a   Rueda, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod Bay; Coastal evolution; paleoforest; radiocarbon dating; sea level; tree stumps

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GPS; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; TRANSGRESSION;

CAPE COD BAY; DUXBURY BAY; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889023090     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00183.1     Document Type: Article

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