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

Product Code: USPE443
Series: GSA Special Papers
Author/Editor: Edited by John B. Anderson & Antonio B. Rodriguez
Publication Date: 24 September 2008

Description

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.

Type: Book
Ten Digit ISBN:
Thirteen Digit ISBN: 9780813724430
Publisher: GSA
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.60 kg

Contents

Preface
A new composite Holocene sea-level curve for the northern Gulf of Mexico, K.T. Milliken, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez
Response of Mobile Bay and eastern Mississippi Sound, Alabama, to changes in sediment accommodation and accumulation, Antonio B. Rodriguez, D. Lawrence Greene Jr., John B. Anderson, and Alexander R. Simms
Sediment accommodation control on estuarine evolution: An example from Weeks Bay, Alabama, USA, Antonio B. Rodriguez, Diana M. Duran, Christopher R. Mattheus, and John B. Anderson
Record of dramatic Holocene environmental changes linked to eustasy and climate change in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, USA, K.T. Milliken, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez
Tracking the Holocene evolution of Sabine Lake through the interplay of eustasy, antecedent topography, and sediment supply variations, Texas and Louisiana, USA, K.T. Milliken, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez
The Holocene evolution of the Galveston estuary complex, Texas: Evidence for rapid change in estuarine environments, John B. Anderson, Antonio B. Rodriguez, K.T. Milliken, and Marco Taviani
The Holocene evolution of the Matagorda and Lavaca estuary complex, Texas, USA, Jessie Maddox, John B. Anderson, K.T. Milliken, Antonio B. Rodriguez, Timothy M. Dellapenna, and Liviu Giosan
Mechanisms controlling environmental change within an estuary: Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA, Alexander R. Simms, John B. Anderson, Antonio B. Rodriguez, and Marco Taviani

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