a conventional (Gumbel) extremal analysis based on more than 60 years of data 

 provided allowance is made for (1) the abnormality of the surge distribution 

 and (2) seasonal changes of surge variance. The agreement suggests that the 

 method may be successfully applied to other short sea- level records or indeed 

 to any partly deterministic process where return periods are of interest. 

 (Authors) . 



217 MILLER, K. G., MOUNTAIN, G. S., and TUCHOLKE, B. E. 1985. "Oligocene 

 Glacio-Eustasy and Erosion on the Margins of the North Atlantic," Geology . 

 Vol 13, No. 1, pp 10-13. 



Oligocene foraminiferal 6'^0 records suggest the development of ice 

 caps (= inferred glacio-eustatic falls) at ca. 36, 31, and 25 Ma. Biostrati- 

 graphic analyses of wells from the United States east coast and Irish con- 

 tinental margins consistently show that upper Oligocene sediments overlie a 

 dischronous erosional surface, underlain by lower Oligocene to Eocene strata. 

 At the minimum, the hiatus extends between ca. 34 and 30 Ma. We speculate 

 that erosion during a glacio-eustatic fall near the early/late Oligocene that 

 erosion during a glacio-eustatic fall near the early/late Oligocene boundary 

 (ca. 32-31 Ma) developed (1) an unconformity on the margins, (2) numerous 

 canyons noted in seismic profiles from the margins of the North Atlantic, and 

 (3) a coastal offlap event. Using 6'^0 data, we apply a model for eustatic 

 changes and margin response that explains the relationships of sea- level, 

 unconformities, and coastal onlap/offlap events. (Authors). 



218 MILLIMAN, J. D., and EMERY, K. 0. 1968. "Sea-Levels During the Past 

 35,000 Years," Science . Vol 162, No. 3858, pp 1121-1123. 



A sea-level curve of the past 35,000 years for the Atlantic continental 

 shelf of the United States is based on more than 80 radiocarbon dates, 15 of 

 which are older than 15,000 years. Materials include shallow-water mollusks, 

 oolites, coralline algae, beachrock, and salt-marsh peat. Sea-level 30,000 to 

 35,000 years ago was near the present one. Subsequent glacier growth lowered 

 sea-level to about -130 ms 16,000 years ago. Holocene transgression probably 

 began about 14,000 years ago, and continued rapidly to about 7,000 years ago. 

 Dates from most shelves of the world agree with this curve suggesting that it 

 is approximately the eustatic curve for the period. (Authors) . 



219 MOBLEY, C. M. 1988. "Holocene Sea-Levels in Southeast Alaska: 

 Preliminary Results," Arctic, Vol 41, No. 4, pp 261-266. 



Natural raised marine deposits and archaeological sites recently 

 discovered in SE Alaska have been measured relative to mean sea- level and 

 radiocarbon dated. Plots of sites on Heceta and Prince of Wales islands are 

 compared to those developed for British Columbia,. Because Holocene sea- levels 

 are a function of isostatic rebound due to removal of glacial ice, as well as 

 global sea-level changes and tectonic activity, the implication is that 



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