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Science 11 May 1979:
Vol. 204. no. 4393, pp. 618 - 620
DOI: 10.1126/science.204.4393.618
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Late Wisconsinan Sea Levels on the Southeast U.S. Atlantic Shelf Based on In-Place Shoreline Indicators

BLAKE W. BLACKWELDER 1, ORRIN H. PILKEY 2, and JAMES D. HOWARD 3

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092
2 U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Geology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708
3 Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, Georgia 31406

A new interpretation of late Pleistocene sea levels on the U.S. Atlantic continental shelf is based on in-place lagoonal and salt-marsh sediments obtained from vibra-cores. These data show sea levels during the last Wisconsinan transgression were about 30 meters shallower than is indicated by existing sea-level curves.

Submitted on December 28, 1978
Revised on March 5, 1979


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Quaternary Climates and Sea Levels of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain.
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