Late Recent Rise of Sea Level

Coal-Bearing Depositional Systems

“…Examples of this response to a rising sea level have been reported from Florida, where some marine influenced peats contain up to 10% sulphur and from the Gulf coast of the United States, where Coleman and Smith (1964) have estimated that 8 ka ago sea level was approximately 9 m lower than it is today. describe an up to 4-m-thick peat seam from southwestern Florida ( Fig.…”

“…Evidence for this is seen in the vertical peat profile consisting of fresh-water-derived saw grass peat at the base followed by brackish and then marine mangrove peat at the middle and upper portions of the seam. Although there is no unanimity about the rate of relative sea-level rise in the area over the last 3 ka, estimates by Coleman and Smith (1964) carried out on the coast of Louisiana suggest a rise in sea level of almost 2 mm/a. This covers at least past of the time span during which the belt of active peat accumulation migrated inland because the vegetation could not keep up with the rise in water level on its seaward side.…”

“…If they contain peat they are situated between active or abandoned distributaries whereby former positions of the latter may influence the thickness of overlying peat. Styan and Bustin (1983a, b), who studied Recent peat formation on the delta plain of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, found lower delta plain peats to be quite irregular and discontinuous in configuration but generally extensive (= blanket peat of Coleman and Smith 1964), thin and high in sulphur. Because of the interaction of storms, tides and river floods, Peatland Ecology 13 ash contents were high in most samples and were emplaced mostly as wash over deposits.…”

The contribution of glacial isostatic adjustment to projections of sea‐level change along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America

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Weeks Island brine diffuser site study: baseline conditions and environmental assessment technical report

“…The c o n t i n e n t a l s h e l f west o f t h e be t r a c e d i n t h e s h a l l o w subsurface o f c e n t r a l and western L o u i s i a n a (Coleman and Smith, 1964). …”