Research Catalog

Title

Quaternary coasts of the United States : marine and lacustrine systems / edited by Charles H. Fletcher, III, and John F. Wehmiller.

Publication

Tulsa, Okla. : SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fletcher, Charles H.
• Wehmiller, John F.
• SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
• IGCP Project 274.

Description

viii, 450 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

SEPM special publication ; no. 48

Uniform Title

Special publication (SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)) ; no. 48.

Alternative Title

Quaternary coasts of the United States, marine and lacustrine systems

Subject

• From 2 million years ago
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Quaternary
• Paleogeography > Quaternary
• Paleogeography > United States
• Coast changes > United States
• Coast changes
• Geology, Stratigraphic
• Paleogeography
• Quaternary Geologic Period
• Estratigrafia
• Littoraux > États-Unis
• Écologie des rivages > États-Unis
• Écologie des estuaires > États-Unis
• United States

Note

• "December, 1992."
• "IGCP. IUGS. UNESCO. Project #274. Quaternary Coastal Evolution."
• Errata sheet inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface. IGCP Project #274: Quaternary coastal evolution / John R. Suter -- pt. 1. National perspectives. Erosion of the United States shoreline / Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr. and E. Robert Thieler. Holocene marine coastal evolution of the United States / Rhodes W. Fairbridge -- pt. II. Atlantic coastal systems. Sea-level change and late Quaternary sediment accumulation of the southern Maine inner continental shelf / Joseph T. Kelley [and others]. Sedimentary framework on Boston Harbor, Massachusetts / Harley J. Knebel [and others]. Evolution and holocene stratigraphy of Plymouth, Kingston and Duxbury Bays, Massachusetts / Michael C. Hill and Duncan M. FitzGerald -- Development fo parabolic dunes and inerdunal wetlands in the Provincelands, Cape Cod National Seashore / Marjorie G. Winkler -- Sedimentologic and morphologic evolution of a beach-ridge barrier along an indented coast: Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts / Duncan M. FitzGerald [and others]. A rational theory for barrier-lagoon development / George F. Oertel [and others]. Record of oxygen isotope stage 5 on the Maryland inner shelf and Atlantic coastal plain--a post-transgressive-highstand regime / Marguerite A. Toscano -- Patterns and rates of sediment accumulation in the Chesapeake Bay during the holocene rise in sea level / Steven M. Colman, Jeffrey P. Halka and C.H. Hobbs, III. Provenance of quaternary beach deposits, Virginia and North Carolina / Dennis A. Darby and Allen E. Evans, Jr. Coastal response to Late Pliocene climate change; middle Atlantic coastal plain, Virginia and Delaware / Kelvin W. Ramsey. Stratigraphy and preservation potential of sediments from adjacent holocene and Pleistocene barrier-island systems, Cape Charles Virginia / Kenneth Finkelstein. Depositional patterns resulting from high-frequency quaternary sea-level fluctuatios in northeastern North Carolina / Stanley R. RIggs [and others]. A late holocene sea-level fluctuation in South Carolina / Paul T. Gayes [and others]. Evolution of Quaternary shoal complexes off the central South Carolina coast / Walter J. Sexton, Miles O. Hayes and Donald J. Colquhoun. Emergent Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments of southeastern Georgia: an anomalous, fossil-poor clastic section / Helaine W. Markewich, Charles M. Hache, and Paul F. Huddlestun -- pt. III. Gulf of Mexico coastal systems. Holocene coastal development of the Florida penninsula / Richard A. Davis, Albert C. Hine and Eugene A. Shinn. Hydrology of meteoric diagenesis: effect of Pleistocene stratigraphy on freshwater lenses of Big Pine Key, Florida / H. Leonard Vacher, Michael J. Wightman, Mark T. Stewart. Quaternary evolution of the Apalachicola Coast, northeastern Gulf of Mexico / Ervin G. Otvos. Quaternary terraces and shorelines of the panhandle Florida region / Joseph F. Donoghue and William F. Tanner. Sediment characteristics and seafloor topography of Palimpsest Shelf, Mississippi-Alabama continental shelf / Steven J. Parker, Albert W. Shultz and William W. Schroeder. Quaternary evolution of the Texas coast and continental shelf / John B. Anderson [and others] pt. IV. Pacific coastal systems. Holocene coral reef on Kauai, Hawaii: evidence for a sea-level highstand in the central Pacific / Anthony T. Jones. Holocene sedimentary framework of Grays Harbor Basin, Washington, U.S.A. / Curt D. Peterson and James B. Phipps. Holocene tidal-marsh stratigraphy in south-centra. Oregon-evidence for localized sudden submergence in the Cascadia subduction zone / Alan R. Nelson. Thermoluminescene ages of estuarine deposits associated with quaternary marine terraces, south-central California / Glenn W. Berger and Kathryn L. Hanson. Late Quaternary deposits near Point Sal, south-central California: a time frame for coastal-dune emplacement / Antony R. Orme. Aminostratigraphy of southern California quaternary marine terrances / John F. Wehmiller. Quaternary marine terraces, south-central coastal California: implications for crustal deformation and coastal evolution / Kathryn L. Hanson [and others]. Ages and deformation of marine terraces between Point Conception and Gaviota, western Transverse Ranges, California / Thomas K Rockwell [and others] Paleoecology and paleozoogeography of late Pleistocene marine-terrace faunas of southwestern Santa Barbara County, California / George L. Kennedy, John F. Wehmiller and Thomas K. Rockwell. Aminostratigraphy and oxygen isotope stratigraphy of marine-terrace deposits, Palos Verdes Hills and San Pedro areas, Los Angeles County, California / Daniel R. Muhs [and others]. Chronology and deformation of quaternary marine shorelines, San Diego County, California / J. Philip Kern and Thomas K. Rockwell -- pt. V. Lacustrine coastal systems. Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Erie and Ontario Lake Bluffs in New York / Parker E. Calkin and Ernest H. Muller. Late Wisconsinan and holocene coastal evolution of the southern shore of Lake Michigan / Michael J. Chrzastowski and Todd A. Thompson. Holocene transgression and coastal-landform evolution in northeastern Lake Erie, Canada / John P. Coakley. Obliteration of surficial paleolake evidence in the Tule Valley subbasin of Lake Bonneville / Dorothy Sack. Sand petrofacies in the shorezone of Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada: a model for a large lake / Robert H. Osborne.

ISBN

• 0918985986
• 9780918985989

LCCN

93225321

OCLC

• ocm27876912
• 27876912
• SCSB-8815560

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library