Quantifying the contribution of sediment compaction to late Holocene salt-marsh sea-level reconstructions, North Carolina, USA

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-51

  Brain, Matthew J ^a   Kemp, Andrew C ^b   Horton, Benjamin P ^c,d   Culver, Stephen J ^e   Parnell, Andrew C ^f   Cahill, Niamh ^f  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Post depositional lowering; Salt marsh peat; Tump Point

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DEPOSITION; REPAIR; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

CHANGE-POINT ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; POST-DEPOSITIONAL LOWERING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SALT MARSHES; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION; TUMP POINT;

SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; COMPACTION; CORE ANALYSIS; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; PEATLAND; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TREND ANALYSIS;

NORTH CAROLINA; TUMP POINT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920732014     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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