Publication Date:
2021-07-10
Description:
EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT):Tidal marsh sediments collected from Browns Island in the lower Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta, California, are used to reconstruct environmental variability over the past 6.8 ka. Calibrated radiocarbon dates provide chronostratigraphic control. Trace metal analyses, grain-size variability, organic content, and macrofossils are used to define short- and long-term variations in relative salinity and inundation frequency. Aggradation began in subtidal fresh water conditions about 6.8 ka. Subtidal aggradation of clayey silts continued until about 6.3 ka, when conditions shifted toward a lower intertidal brackish marsh environment. By 5.1 ka, a brackish marsh plain had evolved, with surface water freshening after 4.1 ka. Conditions returned to brackish similar to the present after 2.3 ka.
Keywords:
Earth Sciences
;
Environment
;
PACLIM
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
conference_item
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
185-198
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