4000 years ago than in the period 4,000 years ago to present. It is also 

 shown that changes in depth within the Bay of Fundy produce little effect on 

 the tidal amplitudes, whereas such variations in water depth on Georges Bank 

 account for almost all the change. This calculation of tidal-amplitude 

 changes allows calibration of sea- level curves to be made for the Bay of Fundy 

 using higher high-water (HHW) indicators. (Authors). 



317 SCOTT, D. B., MEDIOLI, F. S., and MILLER, A. L. 1987. "Holocene Sea- 

 Levels, Paleoceanography, and Late Glacial Ice Configuration Near the North- 

 Cumberland Strait, Maritime Provinces," Canada Journal of Earth Sciences . 

 Vol 24, pp 667. 



Work on new cores from old core sites in Bale Verte , New Brunswick, led 

 to the identification of submerged salt-marsh peats, reported earlier as 

 freshwater ones. A comprehensive sea- level curve, between 9 and 15 m below 

 present, is based on marsh foraminiferal assemblages. These data indicate 

 that between 4,500 and 5,400 BP relative sea- level (RSL) rise was 

 comparatively slow (about 10 cm/100 years) ; the rate increased dramatically 

 between 4,500 and 4,000 BP (1 m/100 years) and decreased between 2,000 and 

 4,000 BP to its present rate of 15 cm/100 years. We suggest RSL was falling 

 before 5400 BP and that the sequence in our deepest core is similar to some 

 observed in the Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotian Atlantic coast where early RSL 

 fall is documented. To account for this sea-level record and others nearby we 

 suggest that the ice history here is complex, with three separate ice caps 

 thinning towards this area in late glacial times. 



Earlier work also indicated a number of sediment sequences barren of 

 benthonic foraminifera, suggesting a complex marine -freshwater history for the 

 area. The study of new cores containing the same sequences indicates no 

 barren zones but a simple transgressive sequence with a warm-water calcareous 

 fauna followed by an agglutinated transitional estuarine foraminiferal fauna. 

 (Authors) . 



318 SCOTT, R. W., FROST, S. H., and SHAFFER, B. L. 1988. "Early 

 Cretaceous Sea-Level Curves, Gulf Coast and Southeastern Arabia," Wilgus , 

 C. K. , Hastings, B. S., Kendall, C. G., Posamentier, H. W. , Ross, C. A., and 

 Van Wagoner, J. C, eds . , Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach . Special 

 Publication No. 42, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 

 Tulsa, OK, pp 275-284. 



Three surface and subsurface sections of Lower Cretaceous strata from 

 the Gulf Coast are correlated with three comparable sections in Oman. 

 Detailed fossil ranges and graphic correlation methods resulted in a 

 biostratigraphic data base that could be related to the geologic time scale. 

 Two events of relative sea- level rise are synchronous in the Gulf Coast basin 

 and the southeastern Arabian platform and may represent eustatic sea- level 

 rises. The intra-Aptian rise began about 115.8 Ma and in many places is 

 represented by a sharp lithologic change, by submarine hardgrounds , or by 

 onlap . Deep-water deposition resumed from 115.2 to 113.9 Ma. The 

 intraCenomanian rise began approximately 94.6 Ma. In Oman, this rise is 



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