199 LYLES, S. D., HICKMAN, L. E., JR. and DEBAUCH, H. A., JR. 1988. Sea- 

 Level Variations for the United States. 1855-1986 . National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, Maryland, pp 182. 



Relative apparent secular sea-level trends, their standard errors, and 

 annual variabilities are computed for 78 United States long-term control 

 stations. The computations and for the common series length, 1950 through 

 1986. Graphs of both monthly and yearly mean sea- level are depicted for the 

 individual stations. Monthly and yearly mean sea-level data are tabulated for 

 the entire length of series at the 78 stations. (Author). 



200 MACINTYE, I. C, PILKEY, 0. H., STUCKENRATH, R. 1978. "Relict Oysters 

 on the United States Atlantic Continental Shelf: A Reconsideration of Their 

 Usefulness in Understanding Late Quaternary Sea-Level History," Geological 

 Society of America . Bulletin 89, pp 277-282. 



Relict oyster shells are thought to be unreliable references for 

 reconstructing sea- level history owing to interrelationships between their age 

 and present depth of occurrence off North Carolina. Radiocarbon dates were 

 obtained from 44 relict oyster shells of Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) 

 collected within a relatively narrow area of the continental shelf from north 

 of Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear (less than 40,000 km^) in depths to 60 m. Data 

 indicate significant post depositional and landward transport of these shells, 

 calling into question some previous interpretations of sea-level history that 

 were based partly on the dating of relict oyster shells and other unreliable 

 relict shoreline deposits. (Authors). 



201 MALATESTA, A., and ZARLENGA, F. 1988. "Evidence of Middle Pleistocene 

 Marine Transgressions Along the Mediterranean Coast," Pa laeo geography. 

 Palaeoclimatology , Palaeoecology . Vol 88, No. 2-4, pp 311-315. 



Typical Middle Pleistocene sequences outcropping along French and 

 Italian coasts are described. Age determination from palaeolithic industries 

 and absolute dating methods correspond to oxygen isotope stages 9 and 11. 

 Evidence of the same transgressive cycles are also indicated in other 

 Mediterranean districts. (Authors). 



202 MANABE, S., and BRYAN, K. . JR. 1985. "CO^ -Induced Change in a Coupled 

 Ocean-Atmosphere Model and Its Paleoclimatic Implications," Journal of 

 Geophysical Research . Vol 90, No. C6 , pp 11689-11707. 



The climatic effects of very large changes of COt concentration in the 

 atmosphere are explored using a general circulation model of the coupled 

 ocean-atmosphere system. As a simplification the model has an annual mean 

 isolation and a highly idealized geography. A series of climatic equilibria 

 are obtained for cases with 1/2, l/v/2,1,2,4, and 8 times the present COj 



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