Beschreibung
A NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Late Quaternary Sea-level Correlation and Applications", was held together with the Final Meeting of IGCP Project 200 in Halifax, Canada, 19-30 July 1987. This Volume is a collection of the NATO Keynote Papers presented at this meeting. The authors of these papers are from seven of the NATO countries - two each from France, the U. K., Canada, and the U. S. A., and one each from Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. With these authors, we are able to assemble work from virtually all of the world's oceans with several different approaches. The Volume is dedicated to Walter S. Newman, one of the best known and best liked sea-level workers of our time who died shortly before this Conference. This Volume contains one of his last contributions and all contributors to this Volume are honoured to be in the company of Walter's last work. There are several papers from North Atlantic countries dealing with Holocene sea level in a variety of ways. Shennan summarizes data from the U. K. and makes a preliminary effort to place the data in the context of a model. Zazo & Goy present new data from the coast of Spain and place it in a stratigraphical context. Van de P1assche re assesses previous data and adds new data to the very sea-level sensitive Dutch coast. Leatherman uses sea-level information in the Chesapeake Region to assess coastal management problems.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeHolocene sea-level changes and crustal movements in the North Sea region: An experiment with regional eustasy.- Sea-level changes in the Iberian peninsula during the last 200,000 years.- Sea-level changes in the Netherlands during the last 6500 years: Basal peat vs. coastal barrier data.- Response of sandy beaches to sea-level rise.- A late Pleistocene low sea-level stand of the southeast Canadian offshore.- Holocene relative sea-level changes and Quaternary glacial events on a continental shelf edge: Sable Island Bank.- Geodynamique des lignes de rivage Quaternaires du continent Africain et applications.- Recent sea-level changes in the North Atlantic.- Late Quaternary shorelines in India.- Archaeology and sea-level change in the southwestern Pacific: No simple story.- Some considerations of the compilation of Late Quaternary sea level curves: A North American perspective.- List of Reviewers.
