as much as 5 mm year' in the areas of massifs and ancient foldbelts and 

 subsiding as much as 9 mm year' in areas of Cenozoic basins and foldbelts. 

 Although the tide-gage records are sparse, inferences from them are supported 

 by the stratigraphy and structure of the region, and by raised and submerged 

 sealevel terraces. Thus, relative changes of sea- level are heavily influenced 

 here by tectonic and isostatic as well as eustatic factors, just as in Japan, 

 Scandinavia, and North America where tide -gage records are much more abundant. 

 Higher frequency (2-25-year periods) sea-level fluctuations how broad peaks 

 between 2 and 4 years, and near 10 years. Some of these fluctuations corre- 

 late with behavior of the Kuroshio Current, which along with freshwater inflow 

 dominates the hydrography of the eastern Asian continental shelves. Observa- 

 tions of water mass fluctuations are too sparse to identify direct causes of 

 all high-frequency variability. (Authors). 



088 EMERY, K. 0., AUBREY, D. G., and GOLDSMITH, V. 1988. "Coastal Neo- 

 tectonics of the Mediterranean from Tide-Gage Records," Marine Geology . 

 Vol 81, pp 41-52. 



Records from tide gages in Israel and Egypt supplement the many 

 geological and archeological investigations that have contributed information 

 about relative sea- level changes in the Mediterranean region. Seven such 

 records reveal changes during the past few decades that accord with prior 

 inferences about land movements in this region (emergence along the coast of 

 Israel and at Alexandria and subsidence at the Nile Delta and the head of the 

 Gulf of Suez). Twenty-four other tide-gage records for the rest of the 

 Mediterranean region indicate more uniformity (submergence of land or rise of 

 sea-level) in the west, but with greater movements of the land attributed to 

 probable plate underthrusting in Turkey and Greece, to volcanism near Mount 

 Etna, to deltaic compaction' at Izmir, and to deltaic compaction coupled with 

 water than pumping at the Po Delta. (Authors). 



089 EMERY, K. 0., and GARRISON, L. E. 1967. "Sea-Levels 7,000 to 

 20,000 Years Ago," Science . Vol 157, pp 684-687. 



Relative sea-levels for early post-Pleistocene time are best known from 

 radiocarbon dates of sediments on the coastal continental shelves off Texas 

 and off northeastern United States. Differences in indicated rates of the 

 rise of relative sea-level and in depths of the shelf-breaks reveal differen- 

 tiated vertical movement of the two shelves during this time, with the results 

 that the Atlantic shelf has sunk with respect to the Texas shelf. (Authors). 



090 EMERY, K. 0.. WIGLEY, R. L. , RUBIN, M. 1965. "A Submerged Peat Deposit 

 Off the Atlantic Coast of the United States," Limnology and Oceanography . 

 Vol 10, Supplement, pp R97-R102. 



A sample of salt-marsh peat from a depth of 59 m at the northwestern 

 margin of Georges Bank has a radiocarbon age of 11,000 + 350 years. No 



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