RATES OF RELATIVE SEA LEVEL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen E. Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Northern Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Level Change

SEA-LEVEL CHANGE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Davis, Jr ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Level Change

scholarly journals Corrigendum: Late Devensian and Holocene relative sea-level change in North Wales, UK

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 768-768
Author(s):  
M. J. Roberts ◽  
J. D. Scourse ◽  
J. D. Bennell ◽  
D. G. Huws ◽  
C. F. Jago ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
North Wales

scholarly journals Relative sea‐level change and postglacial isostatic adjustment along the coast of south Devon, United Kingdom

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 415-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Massey ◽  
W. Roland Gehrels ◽  
Dan J. Charman ◽  
Glenn A. Milne ◽  
W. Richard Peltier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Isostatic Adjustment

Historical rates of salt marsh accretion on the outer Bay of Fundy

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1081-1092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail L Chmura ◽  
Laurie L Helmer ◽  
C Beth Beecher ◽  
Elsie M Sunderland
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Pollen Stratigraphy ◽  
Accretion Rates ◽  
Marsh Accretion

We examine rates of salt marsh accumulation in three marshes of the outer Bay of Fundy. At each marsh we selected a site in the high marsh with similar vegetation, and thus similar elevation. Accretion rates were estimated by 137Cs, 210Pb, and pollen stratigraphy to estimate rates of change over periods of 30, 100, and ~170 years, respectively. These rates are compared with records from the two closest tide gauges (Saint John, New Brunswick, and Eastport, Maine) to assess the balance of recent marsh accretion and sea-level change. Averaged marsh accretion rates have ranged from 1.3 ± 0.4 to 4.4 ± 1.6 mm·year–1 over the last two centuries. Recent rates are similar to the rate of sea-level change recorded at Eastport, Maine, suggesting that they are in step with recent sea-level change but very sensitive to short-term variation in relative sea level. Based on the pollen stratigraphy in the marsh sediments, the marsh accretion rate was higher during the late 18th to early 19th century. Higher rates probably were due to local increases in relative sea level as a result of neotectonic activity and may have been enhanced by increased sediment deposition through ice rafting.

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