Late Holocene sedimentation in a high Arctic coastal setting: Simpson Lagoon and Colville Delta, Alaska

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 74, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-24

  Hanna, Andrea J M ^a   Allison, Mead A ^a,c   Bianchi, Thomas S ^b,d   Marcantonio, Franco ^b   Goff, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Water Institute of the Gulf   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Back barrier sedimentation; CHIRP; Colville River; Inner Beaufort Sea; Late Holocene transgression; Radioisotope geochronology

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL ZONE; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLUTONIUM; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; TRANSGRESSION;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; COLVILLE DELTA; NORTH CAROLINA; SIMPSON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891382240     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.11.026     Document Type: Article

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