Sea-level history since the Last Glacial Maximum on the Pacific margin of North America is
complex and heterogeneous owing to regional differences in crustal deformation …

" WHAT is SO sacrosanct about sea level?" asks WHEELER (1954) recently in a protest
against slavish adherence to the contemporary mean sea level as a permanent datum. On …

With concerns over rising global temperatures, ice sheet stability and implications for sea
level rise, the responses of former ice sheets to past climate change provide useful insights …

A study of the glacial, periglacial, eolian, fluvial, lacustrine, marine, and volcanic deposits of
Quarternary age in Alaska and paleoclimatic fluctuations in light of formation and …

During lithification of Recent carbonate sediments there is progressive elimination of high
magnesian calcite and aragonite and formation of low magnesian calcite. Low magnesian …

Statistical analysis of the constituent composition and grain-size data accumulated for 218
Bahamian sediment samples resulted in the delineation of the following five facies:(1) …

The 1964 Alaskan earthquake (Ms≈ 8.4) involved a segment of the eastern Aleutian arc
800 gm long; the 1960 Chilean earthquake sequence (Ms≈ 8.5) affected roughly 100 km of …

Abstract During the past 35,000 years, Lake Bonneville, Lake Russell, and Lake Searles
underwent a major period of lake-level change. The lakes were at moderate levels or dry at …

The reliabilities of the radiocarbon and uranium series inequilibrium methods of absolute
age determination as applied to lacustrine carbonates have been evaluated. Fifty samples of …

Although the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet invaded only the northeastern
quarter of Illinois during the last glacial episode, depos-its of that glacial interval blanket …