scholarly journals FACTORS CONTROLLING THE OCCURRENCE OF THE GOSAU-TYPE BASINS IN THE SOUTHERN CARPATHIANS: TECTONIC VERSUS SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATION

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation ◽  
Southern Carpathians

Sea level fluctuation and shoreline evolution on decadal time scale, Lithuanian Baltic Sea coast

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 164-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darius Jarmalavičius ◽  
Donatas Pupienis ◽  
Gintautas Žilinskas
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Decadal Time Scale ◽  
Shoreline Evolution ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation ◽  
Sea Coast

A Near-Uniform Basin-Wide Sea Level Fluctuation of the Mediterranean Sea

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Fukumori ◽  
Dimitris Menemenlis ◽  
Tong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Strait Of Gibraltar ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract A new basin-wide oscillation of the Mediterranean Sea is identified and analyzed using sea level observations from the Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/Poseidon satellite altimeter and a numerical ocean circulation model. More than 50% of the large-scale, nontidal, and non-pressure-driven variance of sea level can be attributed to this oscillation, which is nearly uniform in phase and amplitude across the entire basin. The oscillation has periods ranging from 10 days to several years and has a magnitude as large as 10 cm. The model suggests that the fluctuations are driven by winds at the Strait of Gibraltar and its neighboring region, including the Alboran Sea and a part of the Atlantic Ocean immediately to the west of the strait. Winds in this region force a net mass flux through the Strait of Gibraltar to which the Mediterranean Sea adjusts almost uniformly across its entire basin with depth-independent pressure perturbations. The wind-driven response can be explained in part by wind setup; a near-stationary balance is established between the along-strait wind in this forcing region and the sea level difference between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The amplitude of this basin-wide wind-driven sea level fluctuation is inversely proportional to the setup region’s depth but is insensitive to its width including that of Gibraltar Strait. The wind-driven fluctuation is coherent with atmospheric pressure over the basin and contributes to the apparent deviation of the Mediterranean Sea from an inverse barometer response.

Tertiary sea-level fluctuation in South Carolina

1968 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J. Colquhoun ◽  
H.S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation

Development of the Volga Delta in Response to Caspian Sea-Level Fluctuation during Last 100 Years

2004 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 401-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. X. Li ◽  
V. Ivanov ◽  
D. D. Fan ◽  
V. Korotaev ◽  
S. Y. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Volga Delta ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation

scholarly journals Holocene Evolution of the Outer Lake of Hwajinpo Lagoon On the Eastern Coast of Korea; Environmental Changes with Holocene Sea-Level Fluctuation of the East Sea (Sea of Japan)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 797-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Gwon Yum ◽  
Kang-Min Yu ◽  
Keiji Takemura ◽  
Toshiro Naruse ◽  
Akihisa Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
River System ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Estuarine System ◽  
Level Fluctuation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Sedimentary Environments ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuation ◽  
Low Sulfur Content

The evolution of the outer lake of Hwajinpo Lagoon in Korea has been reconstructed using environmental proxies (lithologic, geochemical, and fossil data) with a chronology established using 7 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates. Grain size, water content, and X-ray analyses from the core of outer coastal lakes (HJ99) were used to reconstruct sedimentary environments by using total organic carbon, C/N, S, and C/S chemical proxies. Assemblages of mollusc remains also provided paleoenvironmental information. The environmental changes of the outer lake of Hwajinpo Lagoon can be divided into 6 depositional phases. The basin of the Hwajinpo was exposed and underwent a weathering process before the Holocene period. The muddy sand layer on the weathered bedrock indicated an estuarine system about 6000 BP. The laminated layer implies that the lagoonal system was anoxic between about 5500–2800 BP. The marl layer implies a relatively oxic lagoonal condition with mollusc presence about 2500 B P. The layer of very low sulfur content indicates a freshwater lake system isolated by a sand barrier about 1700 BP. Beginning about 1000 B P, the river system deposits progress progradation on the marl layer. Two erosional landforms could be related with a high standing sea level span during Holocene. These high-stands are dated at 5700 BP and 2200 BP and are supposed to have formed erosional landforms of about 1.6 amsl and 0.8 amsl, respectively. Environmental changes of the outer lake of Hwajinpo Lagoon are considered due mainly to the lake- and sea-level fluctuation during Holocene.

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