257 OTA, Y., BERRYMAN, K. R., HULL, A. G., MIYAUCHI , T. and ISO, N. 1988. 

 "Age and Height Distribution of Holocene Transgressive Deposits in Eastern 

 North Island, New Zealand," Palaeogeography . Palaeoclimatology . Palaeoecology . 

 Vol 68, No. 2-4, pp 135-151. 



Holocene transgressive deposits are frequently exposed near the present- 

 day coastline of the study area along eastern North Island, New Zealand. They 

 occur in sites of former estuaries that were filled during the postglacial 

 rise in sea-level. We present 100 radiocarbon dates of Holocene transgressive 

 deposits from the study area, ranging in age from circa 10,000 to 5,500 year 

 BP. Relative sea- level curves up to circa 6,000 year BP were reconstructed 

 for six locations. The curves have similar slopes prior to about 7000 year 

 BP, indicating that sea- level rise was much more rapid than any tectonic 

 uplift at that time. (Modified Abstract). 



258 OWEN, R. M. , and REA, D. K. 1985. "Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Activity 

 Links Climate to Tectonics: The Eocene Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse," Science . 

 Vol 227, pp 166-169. 



Two important findings of recent ocean- floor drilling in the southeast 

 Pacific (Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 92) are that sea-floor hydrothermal 

 activity may fluctuate through time by as much as an order of magnitude and 

 that episodes of greatest hydrothermal flux correspond to times when 

 ridge -transform plate boundaries are undergoing major changes in their 

 configuration rather than to known times of increased spreading rate or 

 volcanism. Evidence is presented here in support of the hypothesis that 

 heightened hydrothermal activity induced by the Eocene tectonic activity 

 caused a global greenhouse effect, which may represent the long-sought-after 

 historical analog to the carbon dioxide- induced global warming expected to 

 occur by the middle of the next century. (Authors). 



259 PALUMBO, A., and MAZZARELLA, A. 1985. "Internal and External Sources 

 of Mean Sea-Level Variations," Journal of Geophysical Research . Vol 90, 

 No. C4, pp 7075-7086. 



The joint variation of monthly mean sea- level, rainfall, and evaporation 

 recorded in Naples and in other western Mediterranean stations is analyzed. 

 The mass balance among sea-level, rainfall, and evaporation and the 

 application of the Wiener filter methods show that the major portion of sea- 

 level variance concentrated at annual and semiannual components is dominated 

 by evaporation; the effect of rainfall is less than the effect of evaporation; 

 the Atlantic water flux acts as a balancing source of sea- level fluctuations 

 among those of rainfall and evaporation. (Authors). 



260 PARKINSON, R. W. 1988. "Decelerating Holocene Sea-Level Rise and Its 

 Influence on Southwest Florida Coastal Evolution; A Transgressive/Regressive 

 Stratigraphy," Journal of Sedimentary Petrology . Vol 59, No. 6, pp 960-972. 



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