Modelling the effect of Pliocene-Quaternary changes in sea level on stable and tectonically active land masses

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1221-1235

  Trenhaile, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Marine terraces; Model; Sea level; Submarine shelves

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; SUBMARINES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVE EFFECTS;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; MARINE TERRACES; MECHANICAL WAVE EROSION; OSCILLATION AMPLITUDE; PROFILE DEVELOPMENT; SEA-LEVEL OSCILLATIONS; SUBMARINE GRADIENTS; TERRACE FORMATIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; EROSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBMARINE TERRACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRACE; WATER WAVE; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 84904004187     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3574     Document Type: Article

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