Quaternary Sea-Level and Climate Signatures in Phreatic Coastal Caves

• Main Author: van Hengstum, Peter
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Caves; sea level; foraminifera; anchialine; submarine; North Atlantic Oscillation; Quaternary; Green Bay; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13123

Underwater (phreatic) caves are a ubiquitous landform on coastal karst terrain, but the marine geological processes operating in these systems are largely unknown. This dissertation redresses the problem by asking if Bermudian phreatic cave sediments archive sea-level and climate information? An imp...