Revisiting tectonic corrections applied to Pleistocene sea-level highstands

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 111, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-80

  Creveling, Jessica R ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^b   Hay, Carling C ^b,c   Austermann, Jacqueline ^b   Kopp, Robert E ^c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical modeling; Ice age; Ice volumes; Interglacial; Sea level; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; ICE AGE; ICE VOLUMES; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES;

SEA LEVEL;

DISPLACEMENT; EUSTACY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HIGHSTAND; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; UPLIFT;

EID: 84921979569     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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