Sea-level rise in New Jersey over the past 5000 years: Implications to anthropogenic changes

Miller, Kenneth G.; Sugarman, Peter J.; Browning, James V.; Horton, Benjamin P.; Stanley, Alissa.; Kahn, Alicia; Uptegrove, Jane; Aucott, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.03.008

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“…Studies of the upper Pleistocene -Holocene on the inner continental shelf of New Jersey (Ashley et al 1991;Miller et al 2009) and Delaware (Ramsey & Baxter, 1996) have provided a record of sealevel change since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; c. 20-26 ka). A major erosional surface has been mapped on the inner shelf (R1 of Ashley et al 1991); the erosional event occurred prior to the LGM, probably in MIC 4.…”

Section: The Last Deglaciationmentioning

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“…Much of this rise is due to GIA subsidence. Miller et al (2009) assumed that the current GIA subsidence of 1 mm a 21 could be applied to a linear rise in sea level over the past 5 kyr, and concluded that the global rise in sea level was 0.75 + 0.5 mm a 21 . However, modelling of Pacific island records requires a minimal global rise in sea level over the past 2 -3 kyr (Peltier et al 2002).…”

Section: The Last Deglaciationmentioning

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Chapter 3 History of continental shelf and slope sedimentation on the US middle Atlantic margin

Miller

Browning

Mountain

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We describe sedimentation on the storm-dominated, microtidal, continental shelf and slope of the eastern US passive continental margin between the Hudson and Wilmington canyons. Sediments here recorded sea-level changes over the past 100 myr and provide a classic example of the interplay among eustasy, tectonism and sedimentation. Long-term margin evolution reflects changes in morphology from a Late Cretaceous -Eocene ramp to Oligocene and younger prograding clinothem geometries, a transition found on several other margins. Deltaic systems influenced Cretaceous and Miocene sedimentation, but, in general, the MaastrichtianPalaeogene shelf was starved of sediment. Pre-Pleistocene sequences follow a repetitive model, with fining-and coarsening-upward successions associated with transgressions and regressions, respectively. Pleistocene-Holocene sequences are generally quite thin (,20 m per sequence) and discontinuous beneath the modern shelf, reflecting starved sedimentation under high rates of eustatic change and low rates of subsidence. However, Pleistocene sequences can attain great thickness (hundreds of metres) beneath the outermost shelf and continental slope. Holocene sedimentation on the inner shelf reflects transgression, decelerating from rates of approximately 3-4 to around 2 mm a 21 from 5 to 2 ka. Modern shelf sedimentation primarily reflects palimpsest sand sheets plastered and reworked into geostrophically controlled nearshore and shelf shore-oblique sand ridges, and does not provide a good analogue for pre-Pleistocene deposition.

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Section: The Last Deglaciationmentioning

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Chapter 3 History of continental shelf and slope sedimentation on the US middle Atlantic margin

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Mountain

et al. 2014

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“…Dating of microfossils in salt-marsh environments (Lambeck et al, 2010;Kemp et al, 2011) and archaeological evidence (e.g. from Roman fish tanks, Lambeck et al, 2004) indicate that sea level rise did not exceed 0.05-0.07 m per century over the past 2000 years (see also Miller et al, 2009). sea level evolution of the last two millennia based on salt-marsh microfossils analyses along the eastern coast of North America.…”

Section: Paleo Sea Level (Since the Last Glacial Maximum And Last 200mentioning

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Sea level: A review of present-day and recent-past changes and variability

Meyssignac

Cazenave

2012

Journal of Geodynamics

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“…The RSL database previously used to constrain GIA models (Peltier, 1996) contained fewer index points (n = 175) and marine limiting data (n = 85), but a greater number of terrestrial limiting data (n = 395). The increase in the number of index points in the new database is due to both the addition of new data (e.g., Miller et al, 2009) and the reinterpretation of terrestrial limiting dates as index points on the basis of the macrofossil and microfossil sea-level indicators. The elevation errors are index-point specifi c, in contrast to the standard vertical error term employed in the previous database.…”

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Holocene relative sea-level changes and glacial isostatic adjustment of the U.S. Atlantic coast

Engelhart

Peltier

Horton

2011

Geology

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The fi rst quality-controlled Holocene sea-level database for the U.S. Atlantic coast has been constructed from 686 sea-level indicators. The database documents a decreasing rate of relative sea-level (RSL) rise through time with no evidence of sea level being above present in the middle to late Holocene. The highest rates of RSL rise are found in the mid-Atlantic region. We employ the database to constrain an ensemble of glacial isostatic adjustment models using two ice (ICE-5G, ICE-6G [global ice sheet reconstructions]) and two mantle viscosity (models VM5a,VM5b [VM-radial variation of viscosity in the sublithospheric mantle]) variations to assess whether the spherically symmetric viscoelastic models are able to survive intercomparison with a more refi ned database of postglacial RSL history. We identify signifi cant misfi ts between observations and predictions using ICE-5G with the VM5a viscosity profi le. ICE-6G provides some improvement for the northern Atlantic region, but misfi ts remain elsewhere. Decreasing the upper mantle and transition zone viscosity by a factor of 2 to 0.25 × 10 21 Pa s (VM5b) removes signifi cant discrepancies between observations and predictions along the mid-Atlantic coastline, although misfi ts remain in the southern Atlantic region. These may be an indication of the importance of laterally heterogeneous viscosity in the upper mantle.

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Sea-level rise in New Jersey over the past 5000 years: Implications to anthropogenic changes

Cited by 37 publications

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Chapter 3 History of continental shelf and slope sedimentation on the US middle Atlantic margin

Chapter 3 History of continental shelf and slope sedimentation on the US middle Atlantic margin

Sea level: A review of present-day and recent-past changes and variability

Holocene relative sea-level changes and glacial isostatic adjustment of the U.S. Atlantic coast

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