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Transgression (geology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding. Transgressions can be caused either ...
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Marine Transgression and Marine Regression by Evan-Moor Publishing | World of Earth Science. Marine Transgression and Marine Regression summary with 1 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... Search "Marine Transgression and Marine Regression"
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The basal gravel facies (up to 40 m thick in western Iowa) aggraded in incised valleys during the Late Albian Kiowa-Skull Creek marine transgression.
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This article has been cited by other articles: ... Patrick Le Fort1, Marco Tongiorgi2 and Maurizio Gaetani3 ... 1 Institut Dolomieu, Géodynamique des chaînes alpines, 38031 Grenoble, France; 2 Laboratorio di Palinologia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; 3 Dipartimento di Scienze...
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Nature 270, 593 - 594 (15 December 1977); doi:10.1038/270593a ... Department of Geological Sciences, ... CONSIDERABLE refinements have been made recently to Palaeozoic magnetic reversal stratigraphy. Here, we present evidence of a previously unrecognised rapid field change of positive polarity during the Upper part of the...
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Larger depositional features forming around eroding Pleistocene headlands and infilling the estuaries include characteristic shoreline environments, such as spits, dunes, baymouth barriers, an intermeshing network of tidal deltas, nearshore marine erosional-depositional sands and gravels, and lagoons or estuaries...
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This article has been cited by other articles: ... Regional differences in the nature of transgressive marine strata directly above the Galesburg further suggest;
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