@article {443,
	title = {Aminostratigraphy of surface and subsurface Quaternary sediments, North Carolina coastal plain, USA},
	journal = {Quaternary Geochronology},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2010},
	note = {639btTimes Cited:19Cited References Count:82},
	month = {Aug},
	pages = {459-492},
	abstract = {The Quaternary stratigraphy and geochronology of the Albemarle Embayment of the North Carolina (NC) Coastal Plain is examined using amino acid racemization (AAR) in marine mollusks, in combination with geophysical, lithologic, and biostratigraphic analysis of 28 rotasonic cores drilled between 2002 and 2006. The Albemarle Embayment is bounded by structural highs to the north and south, and Quaternary strata thin westward toward the Suffolk paleoshoreline, frequently referred to as the Suffolk Scarp. The Quaternary section is up to similar to 90 m thick, consists of a variety of estuarine, shelf, back-barrier, and lagoonal deposits, and has been influenced by multiple sea-level cycles. The temporal resolution of the amino acid racemization method is tested statistically and with the stratigraphic control provided by this geologic framework, and it is then applied to the correlation and age estimation of subsurface units throughout the region. Over 500 specimens (primarily Mercenaria and Mulinia) from the subsurface section have been analyzed using either gas chromatographic (GC) or reverse-phase liquid chromatographic (RPLC) techniques. The subsurface stratigraphic data are compared with AAR results from numerous natural or excavated exposures from the surrounding region, as well as results from NC beach collections, to develop a comprehensive aminostratigraphic database for the entire Quaternary record within the NC coastal system. Age mixing, recognized in the beach collections, is also seen in subsurface sections, usually where major seismic reflections or core lithology indicate the presence of stratigraphic discontinuities. Kinetic models for racemization are tested within the regional stratigraphic framework, using either radiocarbon or U-series calibrations or comparison with regional biostratigraphy. Three major Pleistocene aminozones [AZ2, AZ3, and AZ4] are found throughout the region, all being found in superposition in several cores. Each can be subdivided, yielding a total of at least eight stratigraphically and statistically distinct aminozones. Kinetic modeling, supplemented with local calibration, indicates that these aminozones represent depositional events ranging from similar to 80 ka to nearly 2 Ma. Three prominent seismic reflections are interpreted to represent the base of the early, middle, and late Pleistocene, respectively, roughly 2 Ma, 800 ka, and 130 ka. The large number of samples and the available stratigraphic control provide new insights into the capabilities and limitations of aminostratigraphic methods in assessing relative and numerical ages of Atlantic Coastal Plain Quaternary deposits. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {1871-1014},
	doi = {10.1016/j.quageo.2009.10.005},
	author = {Wehmiller, J. F. and Thieler, E. R. and Miller, D. and Pellerito, V. and Keeney, V. B. and Riggs, S. R. and Culver, S. and Mallinson, D. and Farrell, K. M. and York, L. L. and Pierson, J. and Parham, P. R.}
}
@article {452,
	title = {Micropaleontologic record of late pliocene and quaternary paleoenvironments in the northern Albemarle embayment, North Carolina, USA},
	journal = {Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology},
	volume = {264},
	year = {2008},
	note = {id: 815; 331MZ Times Cited:2 Cited References Count:79Y},
	pages = {54-77},
	abstract = {Micropaleontological data provide a strong actualistic basis for detailed interpretations of Quaternary paleoenvironmental change. The 90 m-thick Quaternary record of the Albemarle Embayment in the mid-Atlantic coastal plain of the USA provides an excellent opportunity to use such an approach in a region where the details of Quaternary environmental change are poorly known. The foraminiferal record in nine cores from the northern Outer Banks, east of Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, indicates the deposition of subhorizontal, mostly open-marine early to late Pleistocene units unconformably upon a basement of late Pliocene reduced-oxygen, fine-grained, shelf-basin deposits. Pollen data record several warm-cool fluctuations within the early to mid-Pleistocene deposits. Diatom data indicate that some fresh and brackish-water units occur within the generally open-marine Pleistocene succession. A channel cut by the paleo-Roanoke River during the last glacial sea-level lowstand occurs in the northern part of the study area. Pollen indicates that the basal fluvial valley fill accumulated in cooler than modern climate conditions in the latest Pleistocene. Overlying silts and muds accumulated under cool climatic, estuarine conditions according to diatom and pollen data. Radiocarbon ages from the estuarine deposits indicate that the bulk of these sediments accumulated during the latest Pleistocene. The estuarine channel-fill deposits are overlain by Holocene open-marine sands deposited as the rising sea transgressed into the estuary approximately 8.5 to 9.0 kyr BR Within the barrier island drill cores of this study, fully marine sedimentation occurred throughout the Holocene. However, immediately west of the present barrier island, mid- to late Holocene estuarine deposits underlie the modern Albemarle Sound. The islands that currently form a continuous barrier across the mouth of Albemarle Sound have a complex history of Holocene construction and destruction and large portions of them may be less than 3 kyr old. The barrier island sands overlie open-marine sands of Colington Shoal in the north and to the south overlie fluvial and marine sand filling paleo-Roanoke tributary valleys. The Pleistocene sediments underlying the northern Outer Banks study area are mainly of open inner to midshelf origin. If, as is likely, sea level continues to rise, a return to such environmental conditions is likely in the near future. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0031-0182},
	doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.03.012},
	author = {Culver, S. J. and Farrell, K. M. and Mallinson, D. J. and Horton, B. P. and Willard, D. A. and Thieler, E. R. and Riggs, S. R. and Snyder, S. W. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Bernhardt, C. E. and Hillier, C.}
}
@article {651,
	title = {Quaternary depositional patterns and sea-level fluctuations, northeastern North Carolina},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {67},
	year = {2007},
	note = {131tvTimes Cited:18Cited References Count:56},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {83-99},
	abstract = {A detailed record of late Quaternary sea-level oscillations is preserved within the upper 45 in of deposits along an eight kin transect across Croatan Sound, a drowned tributary of the Roanoke/Albemarle drainage system, northeastern North Carolina. Drill-hole and seismic data reveal nine relatively complete sequences filling an antecedent valley comprised of discontinuous middle and early Pleistocene deposits. On interfluves, lithologically similar marine deposits of different sequences occur stacked in vertical succession and separated by ravinement surfaces. Within the paleo-drainage, marine deposits are separated by fluvial and/or estuarine sediments deposited during periods of lowered sea level. Foraminiferal and molluscan fossil assemblages indicate that marine facies were deposited in a shallow-marine embayment with open connection to shelf waters. Each sequence modifies or truncates portions of the preceding sequence or sequences. Sequence boundaries are the product of a combination of fluvial, estuarine, and marine erosional processes. Stratigraphic and age analyses constrain the ages of sequences to late Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 and younger (similar to 140 ka to present), indicating multiple sea-level oscillations during this interval. Elevations of highstand deposits associated with late MIS 5 and MIS 3 imply that sea level was either similar to present during those times, or that the region may have been influenced by glacio-isostatic uplift and Subsidence. (c) 2006 University of Washington. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1016/j.yqres.2006.07.003},
	author = {Parham, P. R. and Riggs, S. R. and Culver, S. J. and Mallinson, D. J. and Wehmiller, J. F.}
}
@article {1015,
	title = {Aspartic acid racemization dating of Holocene brachiopods and bivalves from the southern Brazilian shelf, South Atlantic},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {66},
	year = {2006},
	note = {id: 1168},
	pages = {323-331},
	abstract = {The extent of racemization of aspartic acid (Asp) has been used to estimate the ages of 9 shells of the epifaunal calcitic brachiopod Bouchardia rosea and 9 shells of the infaunal aragonitic bivalve Semele casali. Both taxa were collected concurrently from the same sites at depths of 10 m and 30 m off the coast of Brazil. Asp D/L values show an excellent correlation with radiocarbon age at both sites and for both taxa (r2Site 9 B. rosea = 0.97, r2Site 1 B. rosea = 0.997, r2Site 9 S. casali = 0.9998, r2Site 1 S. casali = 0.93). The Asp ratios plotted against reservoir-corrected AMS radiocarbon ages over the time span of multiple millennia can thus be used to develop reliable and precise geochronologies not only for aragonitic mollusks (widely used for dating previously), but also for calcitic brachiopods. At each collection site, Bouchardia specimens display consistently higher D/L values than specimens of Semele. Thermal differences between sites are also notable and in agreement with theoretical expectations, as extents of racemization for both taxa are greater at the warmer, shallower site than at the cooler, deeper one. In late Holocene marine settings, concurrent time series of aragonitic and calcitic shells can be assembled using Asp racemization dating, and parallel multi-centennial to multi-millennial records can be developed simultaneously for multiple biomineral systems.},
	keywords = {Amino acid racemization, Aspartic, Bouchardia, Brachiopods, Brazil, Holocene, Mollusks, Radiocarbon dating, Semele, Ubatuba Bay},
	doi = {10.1016/j.yqres.2006.04.001},
	author = {Barbour-Wood, S. L. and Krause R.A, Jr. and Kowalewski, M. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Simoes, M. G.}
}
@conference {1632,
	title = {Evaluating the Holocene c=dynamics of oceanographic processes in the Southeast Brazilian Bight using accumulations of calcitic and aragonitic shells},
	booktitle = {American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting},
	year = {2006},
	note = {id: 716},
	month = {2006},
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {PP43A-01233},
	author = {Krause R.A, Jr. and Barbour-Wood, S. and Kowalewski, M. and Simoes, M. G. and Kaufman, D. and Romanek, C. S. and Wehmiller, J. F.}
}
@conference {1650,
	title = {Holocene terebratulid brachiopods from the southern Brazilian Shelf (South Atlantic): Ecology, taphonomy, and time-averaging},
	booktitle = {Fifth International Brachiopod Congress},
	year = {2005},
	note = {id: 1171; Abstracts, p. 34-35},
	month = {2005},
	publisher = {Harper, D. A. T. Long, S. L. McCorrey, M.},
	organization = {Harper, D. A. T. Long, S. L. McCorrey, M.},
	address = {Copenhagen},
	author = {Kowalewski, M. and Simoes, M. G. and Barbour-Wood, S. L. and Krause R.A, Jr. and Rodriguez, S. C. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Rodland, D. L. and Carroll, M.}
}
@article {945,
	title = {The multi-centennial dynamics of an upwelling system revealed by stable isotope and trace element sclerochronology of amino-acid dated bivalve and brachiopod shells},
	journal = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs},
	volume = {37},
	year = {2005},
	note = {id: 717},
	pages = {525},
	author = {Krause, R. A., Jr. and Barbour-Wood, S. and Romanek, C. S. and Kowalewski, M. and Simoes, M. G. and Wehmiller, J. F.}
}
@conference {1590,
	title = {A comparative analysis of time averaging for bivalves and brachiopods from a modern tropical shelf},
	booktitle = {Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs},
	year = {2004},
	note = {id: 718},
	month = {2004},
	address = {Denver, CO, USA},
	abstract = {36(5):383},
	author = {Krause R.A, Jr. and Barbourl-Wood, S. L. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Kowalewski, M. and Simoes, M. G.}
}
@inbook {1444,
	title = {Quaternary sea level history of the United States},
	booktitle = {The Quaternary period in the United States, Developments in Quaternary science},
	year = {2004},
	note = {id: 706},
	month = {2004},
	pages = {147-183},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	organization = {Elsevier},
	address = {Amsterdam},
	author = {Muhs, D. R. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Simmons, K. R. and York, L. L.},
	editor = {Gillespie, A. R.}
}
@conference {1809,
	title = {Time averaging on a shallow subtropical shelf: the search for a taphomomic clock},
	booktitle = {Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs},
	year = {2004},
	note = {id: 719},
	month = {2004},
	address = {Washington, DC, USA},
	abstract = {36(2):134},
	author = {Barbour-Wood, S. L. and Krause R.A, Jr. and Kowalewski, M. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Simoes, M. G.}
}
@conference {1593,
	title = {A comparison of rates of time averaging between the bivalve Macoma cleryana and brachiopod Bouchardia rosea on a shallow subtropical shelf},
	booktitle = {Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs},
	year = {2003},
	note = {id: 720},
	month = {2003},
	address = {Seattle, WA, USA},
	abstract = {35(6):273},
	author = {Barbour-Wood, S. L. and Krause R.A, Jr. and Kowalewski, M. and Wehmiller, J. F. and Simoes, M. G. and Goodfriend, G. A.}
}
