DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE PAST 20,000 YEARS IN WESTERN LONG ISLAND SOUND, NEW YORK

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Sharp for their efforts during the collection of the data; Long Island; Glacial Lake; Long Island Sound; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.9784; http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts07/abstracts/Acosta_etal_LIGC.pdf

One of the major scientific objectives was to study the deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and Holocene transgression of sea level in western Long Island Sound to document age, sedimentation processes, and climate from high-resolution geophysics and sediment cores. Our initial results show fou...