Sediments and History of Holocene Transgression, Continental Shelf, Northwest Gulf of Mexico1

1960 ◽  
pp. 221-266 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Holocene Transgression ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Late Tertiary Geologic History of the Continental Shelf off Northwestern Palawan, Philippines

1973 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.V. Tamesis ◽  
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E.V. Manalac ◽  
C.A. Reyes ◽  
L.M. Ote
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Geologic History ◽  
Late Tertiary ◽  
History Of

Ecosystem history of Mississippi River-influenced continental shelf revealed through preserved phytoplankton pigments

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 537-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy N. Rabalais ◽  
Nazan Atilla ◽  
Claire Normandeau ◽  
R. Eugene Turner
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Phytoplankton Pigments ◽  
History Of

The Glacial History of the Svalberd Archipelago from Late Vistulian to the Present Time / Historia zlodowacenia archipelagu Svalbard od późnego vistulianu do współczesności

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Ćwiąkała ◽  
Mateusz Moskalik ◽  
Jan Rodzik ◽  
Piotr Zagórski
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Svalbard Archipelago ◽  
Maximum Extent ◽  
Late Vistulian ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe glacial history of the Svalbard archipelago is often a hot topic for researches, but the articles usually refer to a particular piece of Svalbard. The authors of this work studied many scientific articles based on the researches to find and collect this history. Svalbard archipelago is located in the Arctic, at the edge of the continental shelf of Europe. The end of shelf boundary noted occurrence of ice caps in the past glaciations. In turn, the main elements of the landscape of the archipelago are glaciers that are currently in a recession. Spitsbergen (the biggest island of the archipelago) sets the limit of Pleistocene glaciations, and the current state of glaciers allows determining the place where the recession is intense. The main aim of the authors in this study is to show this history only from the late Vistulian to the late Holocene (the beginning of 21st century). Interstadials and Stadials start time varies, as their duration in different places, according to various authors. It is very hard to collect all information and describe this history. By knowing the history of glaciation, we can distinguish in the late Vistulian: Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), Bølling/Older Dryas/Allerød and Younger Dryas (YD). LGM was the stadial in which was the maximum extent of ice sheet in late Vistulian. After this period, ice sheet began to retreat from the continental shelf. In turn, YD was the stadial in which the last advance of glaciers took place, about 11 000 years BC. In the Holocene we can distinguish Holocene Climatic Optimum (in the meantime short Cooling Holocene), Revdalen Stadial, Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age (LIA) and 20th century warming. The maximum extent of glaciers in Holocene was in LIA. In LIA, the extent of glaciers was bigger than in YD. In 20th century a warming started and continues until now.

scholarly journals Submarine seismic investigations

1941 ◽  
Vol 177 (971) ◽  
pp. 476-499 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Elastic Waves ◽  
English Channel ◽  
The West ◽  
Seismic Method ◽  
Hard Rocks ◽  
Refraction Seismic ◽  
History Of

The refraction seismic method has been used to investigate the form of the surface of the hard rocks underlying the sediments on the continental shelf to the west of the English Channel. This surface is found to slope steadily downwards on receding from the land, and to reach a depth of over 8000 ft. at the 100 fm. line. The velocity of elastic waves in the sediments is about 6000 ft./sec. near the surface and up to 9700 ft./sec. lower down, compared to 16,000—22,000 ft./sec. in the basement. The bearing of these results on the structure and history of the shelf is discussed.

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