Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise

Author: John B. Anderson

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0813724430

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One of the main impacts of global warming is accelerated sea-level rise: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictions suggest that the rate of rise could reach as high as 5'10 mm/yr by the end of this century. While it is generally recognized that accelerated sea-level rise will severely impact low-gradient coastlines, scientists are still ill prepared to predict coastal response. A study of seven Gulf Coast estuaries (Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, Weeks Bay, Calcasieu Lake, Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, and Corpus Christi Bay) was aimed at examining their response to past changes in the rate of sea-level rise and climate. The rates of change are of the same magnitude as those predicted for this century. The estuarine response to change has been one of abrupt landward retreat and major reorganization of estuarine environments at decadal time scales. This book should be of interest to scientists and policy makers concerned with future impacts of global warming.

Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial History of Uphapee Creek, Macon County, Alabama
Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial History of Uphapee Creek, Macon County, Alabama

Author: Donald L. Gautier

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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By U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines -- Geology of the Chama-southern San Juan Mountains wilderness study area, Colorado / by Maurice R. Brock and David R. Gaskill -- Geophysical investigation of the Chama-southern San Juan Mountains wilderness study area, Colorado / by Jeffery C. Wynn -- Geochemical evaluation of mineral resources in the Chama-southern San Juan Mountains wilderness study area, Colorado / by Maurice R. Brock, George J. Neuerberg, and Theodore Botinelly -- Oil and gas potential of the Chama-southern San Juan Mountains wilderness study area, Colorado / by Robert T. Ryder -- Metallic and coal resources of the Chama-southern San Juan Mountains wilderness study area, Colorado / by Alec E. Lindquist.

Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin
Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin

Author: John B. Anderson

Publisher: SEPM Soc for Sed Geology

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the north Gulf of Mexico margin : a synthesis -- High-resolution stratigraphy of a sandy, ramp-type margin, Apalachicola, Florida -- Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the Alabama-west Florida outher continental shelf -- late Quaternary geology of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico shelf : sedimentology, depositional history, and ancient analogs of a major shelf sand sheet of teh modern transgressive systems tract -- Sequence stratigraphy of a continental margin subjected to low-energy and low-sediment-supply environmental boundary conditions : late Pleistocene-Holocene deposition offshore Alabama -- Late Quaternary deposition and paleobathymetry at the shelf-slope transition, ancestral Mobile River delta complex, northeastern Gulf of Mexico -- Depositional architecture of the Lagniappe Delta : sediment characteristics, timing of depositional events, and temporal relations with adjacent shelf-edge deltas -- Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene Lagniappe Delta and related section, northeastern Gulf of Mexico -- Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the west Lousiana-east Texas continental shelf -- Late Quaternary Brazos and Colorado deltas, offshore Texas, their evolution and the factors that controlled their deposition -- Late Quaternary evolution of the wave-storm-dominated Central Texas Shelf -- Late Quaternary evolution of the Rio Grande Delta.

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

Author: Noreen A. Buster

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2011-05-30

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1603442901

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Volume 3 of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota; a series edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle A continuation of the landmark scientific reference series from the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 3, Geology provides the most up-to-date, systematic, cohesive, and comprehensive description of the geology of the Gulf of Mexico Basin. The six sections of the book address the geologic history, recent depositional environments, and processes offshore and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific research in the Gulf of Mexico region is continuous, extensive, and has broad-based influence upon scientific, governmental, and educational communities. This volume is a compilation of scientific knowledge from highly accomplished and experienced geologists who have focused most of their careers on gaining a better understanding of the geology of the Gulf of Mexico. Their research, presented in this volume, describes and explains the formation of the Gulf Basin, Holocene stratigraphic and sea-level history, energy resources, coral reefs, and depositional processes that affect and are represented along our Gulf coasts. It provides valuable synthesis and interpretation of what is known about the geology of the Gulf of Mexico. Five years in the making, this monumental compilation is both a lasting record of the current state of knowledge and the starting point for a new millennium of study.