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Science 31 May 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3570, pp. 979 - 983
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3570.979
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Pleistocene Sea Levels, Southeastern Virginia

Robert Q. Oaks Jr. 1 and Nicholas K. Coch 1

1 Department of Geology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Detailed study of post-Miocene stratigraphy in southeastern Virginia reveals at least 13 formations which show six Pliocene (?) and Pleistocene cycles of emergence and submergence, with maximum submergent sea levels near +45, +45, +20, +25, +15, and 0 feet, respectively. The newly established stratigraphic framework disproves earlier interpretations of "terrace-stratigraphy" and sea level chronologies.


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