Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Galway Bay, a shallow coastal embayment along Ireland’s North-East Atlantic margin

• Other Authors: Novak, Joyce D.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick 2017
• Subjects: Climate change; Coastal diatoms; Benthic foraminifera; Paleo tides; Sediment hiatus; Inner Bay; Shallow Bay; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2125

Coastal environments are highly dynamic and complicated systems that vary spatially and temporally over a range of timescales. This study explores the paleoenvironmental changes recorded in sediment cores taken from Galway Bay, located on the coast of western Ireland. Galway Bay is a large shallow b...