Late Holocene sea- and land-level change on the U.S. southeastern Atlantic coast

Marine Geology

Volumn 357, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-100

  Kemp, Andrew C ^a   Bernhardt, Christopher E ^b   Horton, Benjamin P ^c,d   Kopp, Robert E ^c,e   Vane, Christopher H ^f   Peltier, W Richard ^g   Hawkes, Andrea D ^h   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ⁱ   Parnell, Andrew C ^j   Cahill, Niamh ^j  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e Rutgers University   (United States)

^f BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

Florida; Foraminifera; Glacio isostatic adjustment Greenland fingerprint; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; REPAIR; SUBSIDENCE; TIDE GAGES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FLORIDA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SALT MARSHES; ATLANTIC COASTS; LATE HOLOCENE; LEVEL CHANGE;

SEA LEVEL;

FORAMINIFERA; GLACIOEUSTACY; HOLOCENE; LAND SURFACE; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84906509677     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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