Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

2005 Edition
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  • Nils-Axel Mörner
  • B. Chris Brewster
  • Henry Bokuniewicz
  • Douglas L. Inman
  • Terry R. Healy
  • Richard J. Seymour
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Lagoons

See  Coastal Lakes and Lagoons See Indian Ocean Coasts

Landslides

See  Mass Wasting See Indian Ocean Coasts

Late Quaternary Marine Transgression

The total volume of water in the world’s oceans exhibits a nearly perfect negative correlation with global ice volume; when one increases the other decreases. This is known as glacial eustasy (first proposed by Maclaren, 1842). The balance between global ice volume and ocean water volume is controlled by climate. At the last glaciation maximum some 20,000 radiocarbon years BP large quantities of water were withdrawn from the oceans and accumulated in the form of extensive continental ice caps. We may try to reconstruct past glacial volume changes by the following three means:
  1. (1)

    the recording of corresponding sea-level positions, which are affected by numerous other variables;

     
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    the recording of corresponding oxygen isotope variations, which are affected by other factors, too, not least temperature;

     
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    volumetric estimates of...

Keywords

Barrier Island Submarine Canyon Longshore Current Littoral Cell Littoral Drift 
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  • Nils-Axel Mörner
  • B. Chris Brewster
  • Henry Bokuniewicz
  • Douglas L. Inman
  • Terry R. Healy
  • Richard J. Seymour

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