Coastal sediments
In: Shennan, I.; Long, A.J.; Horton, B.P. (Ed.) (2015). Handbook of sea-level research. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. ISBN 978-1-13-9235-77-8. xiv, 581, a36 pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118452547, more |
| Abstract | Sea-level histories are reconstructed from sequences of coastal sediment using standard methods of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Sediment is sampled with hand-operated gouge corers, chamber corers, and piston corers and less commonly with engine-driven vibracorers and geoslicers. But coastal sediment is most accurately mapped and interpreted in exposures. Use the Tröels-Smith system and standard soil methods to describe coastal sediment. Field data are most effectively compiled, compared, and synthesized into lithofacies models from which sea-level histories are inferred using photo-data-mosaics of cores and exposures. Notebooks and cameras remain the data recording tools of choice, but computer tablets are rapidly replacing paper-based methods. |
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