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Science 7 June 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3832, pp. 1110 - 1112
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3832.1110
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Littoral of the Northeastern United States: Late Quaternary Warping

Walter S. Newman 1 and Stanley March 1

1 Department of Geology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367

Isobases constructed from recently published data are strikingly parallel to both the edge of the continental shelf off the northeastern United States and the Fall Zone. Our analyses suggest that the downwarping recorded by these isobases may be explained by Daly's hypothesis of a collapsing peripheral or marginal "bulge."


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