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2004, Oceanography 17(4):118–131, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.09
Modeling Continental Shelf Formation in the Adriatic Sea and Elsewhere
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Authors
Lincoln Pratson | Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
John Swenson | Department of Geological Sciences and Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA
Albert Kettner | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States of America, and Faculty of Applied Earth Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Juan Fedele | St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
George Postma | Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alan W. Niedoroda | URS Corporation, Tallahasee, Florida, USA
Carl Friedrichs | Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA
James P.M. Syvitski | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Chris Paola | Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Mike Steckler | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
Eric Hutton | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Christopher W. Reed | URS Corporation, Tallahasee, Florida, USA
M. Van Dijk | Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Himangshu Das | URS Corporation, Tallahasee, Florida, USA
First Paragraph
Over geologic time, continental shelves are repeatedly flooded and exposed by relative rises and falls in sea level. As such, shelves are shaped and reshaped by subaerial, coastal, and submarine processes. While these processes can be studied today, the temporal and spatial scales over which shelf morphology and strata are created are beyond the realm of direct observation. The incompleteness of the stratigraphic record and of records of past environments complicates matters even further for it riddles geologic interpretations of strata with uncertainties about what formed when, where, why, and how.
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Citation
Pratson, L., J. Swenson, A. Kettner, J. Fedele, G. Postma, A. Niedoroda, C. Friedrichs, J.P.M. Syvitski, C. Paola, M. Steckler, E. Hutton, C. Reed, M. Van Dijk, and H. Das. 2004. Modeling continental shelf formation in the Adriatic Sea and elsewhere. Oceanography 17(4):118–131, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.09.