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North Sea's capricious anthropocenic shores
| Title: | North Sea's capricious anthropocenic shores. |
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| Name(s): |
Charlier, Roger H., creator Finkl, Charles W., creator Thys, Alexandre C., creator |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2011 | |
| Publisher: | Coastal Education and Research Foundation [CERF] | |
| Physical Description: | text/pdf[4p.] | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The large North Pacific bivalve mollusk index-fossil Fortipecten hallae (Dall, 1921) is present in a well-dated stratigraphic section of the Milky River Formation, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska. Co-occurring marine diatoms belong to the upper part of the subzone B of the Neodenticula kamtschatica diatom zone of the North Pacific diatom chronostratigraphy, with an age range of 4.8–5.1 Ma (early Pliocene). Based on coeval occurrences in northeastern Kamchatka, Russia, and synchronous changes in the two molluscan assemblages, F. hallae is a useful indicator of early Pliocene climatic warming along the high latitude North Pacific margin. | |
| Identifier: | 3174138 (digitool), FADT3174138 (IID), fau:2019 (fedora) | |
| FAU Department/College: | Department of Geosciences Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | |
| Note(s): | On the North Sea and Channel shores the Southeastern coast of England holds perhaps the record for the number of towns gobbled up during recent—historic—times. The relative level of the sea to the land has varied over the centuries: in the late Roman period, and again from about 1250 onwards. Protective dykes were constructed but were repeatedly destroyed by the sea. There were periods of accretion that resulted for instance in the creation of the salt marshes of Essex and the Wash. Once flourishing settlements on the eastern coast of England have been completely destroyed, some before, some during the Middle Ages. Some prospering settlements disappeared under the sea in the 14th century, when major flooding occurred several times, with the worst floods in the 15th century. The coast of Flanders—Belgian area and Netherlandish Zeeland—has been the theatre of both silting and erosion. The paper provides a review of physical changes, loss of land, and their economic consequences. | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3174138 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2011 Coastal Education and Research Foundation [CERF] | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
