scholarly journals Shallow-water drilling of the New Jersey continental shelf: global sea level and architecture of passive margin sediments

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.S. Mountain ◽  
J.-N. Proust ◽  
D. McInroy
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Global Sea Level

Drilling and Dating New Jersey Oligocene-Miocene Sequences: Ice Volume, Global Sea Level, and Exxon Records

Science ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (5252) ◽  
pp. 1092-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Miller ◽  
G. S. Mountain ◽  
the Leg 150 Shipboard Party ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Ice Volume ◽  
Global Sea Level

scholarly journals The Staircase Structure of the Southern Brazilian Continental Shelf

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
M. S. Baptista ◽  
L. A. Conti
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Devil's Staircase ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Devil’S Staircase ◽  
The World ◽  
Sea Level Variations ◽  
Staircase Structure ◽  
Global Sea Level

We show some evidences that the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Shelf (SBCS) has a devil's staircase structure, with a sequence of scarps and terraces with widths that obey fractal formation rules. Since the formation of these features is linked with the sea-level variations, we say that the sea level changes in an organized pulsating way. Although the proposed approach was applied in a particular region of the Earth, it is suitable to be applied in an integrated way to other shelves around the world, since the analyses favor the revelation of the global sea-level variations.

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