Quaternary geology of Long Island Sound and adjacent coastal areas
Subtitle: Walter S. Newman memorial volume
By: edited by Paul T. Gayes, Ralph S. Lewis, Henry J. Bokuniewicz.
Contributors: Gayes, Paul T.; Lewis, Ralph S.; Bokuniewicz, Henry J.; State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut.
Series: Journal of coastal research -- no. 11.
Publisher: Published by the Coastal Education and Research Foundation in cooperation with the State Geological and Natural History Survey, Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Fort Lauderdale, Fl
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary.; Geology -- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Late quaternary stratigraphy and depositional history of the Long Island Sound Basin: Connecticut and New York / Ralph S. Lewis and Janet Radway Stone; value: Stratigraphy and geologic history of quaternary sediments in Lower West Passage, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island / John A. Peck and Robert L. McMaster; value: Estuarine paleoshorelines in Long Island Sound, New York / Paul T. Gayes and Henry J. Bokuniewicz; value: Holocene evolution of the Hudson River Estuary / Nicholas K. Coch, Karin G. Barton and Albert G. Longoria; value: Origin of the paleovalley system underlying Hammock River Marsh, Clinton, Connecticut / W. Roland Gehrels and Orson van de Plassche; value: Palynology of late Wisconsinan/early Holocene lake and marsh deposits, Hammock River Marsh, Connecticut / John Shaw and Orson van de Plassche; value: Trace element geochemistry and pollution history of mudflat and marsh sediments from the Connecticut coastline / Johan C. Varekamp; value: Paleo-environmental analyses of marsh sequences (Clinton, Connecticut): evidence for punctuated rise in relative sealevel during the late Holocene / E. Thomas and J.C. Varekamp; value: Late Holocene sea-level fluctuations on the shore of Connecticut inferred from transgressive and regressive overlap boundaries in salt-marsh deposits / O. van de Plassche; value: A submergence curve for the Connecticut River Estuary / Peter C. Patton and Gregory S. Horne; value: Late Quaternary evolution of the shallow platform off the Connecticut River, northeastern Long Island Sound / Gregory S. Horne and Peter C. Patton; value: Stratigraphy of the Long Island Platform / Les Sirkin.