Coastline and Dune Evolution along the Great Lakes

Dune formation on late Holocene sandy bay barriers along Lake Michigan's Door Peninsula: The importance of increased sediment supply following the Nipissing and Algoma high lake-level phases
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Published:July 01, 2014
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J. Elmo Rawling, III, Paul R. Hanson, 2014. "Dune formation on late Holocene sandy bay barriers along Lake Michigan's Door Peninsula: The importance of increased sediment supply following the Nipissing and Algoma high lake-level phases", Coastline and Dune Evolution along the Great Lakes, Timothy G. Fisher, Edward C. Hansen
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This study focuses on the geomorphology and geochronology of dunes formed on three sandy barrier systems at Clark, Europe and Kangaroo Lakes in Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. The Lake Michigan shoreline in the peninsula contains abundant evidence for fluctuations in lake level with paleo-shoreline features that lie up to ~7 m above the present shoreline. Dunes are not very common along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Wisconsin, but the three bay barriers studied contain beach ridges that were buried by varying depths of eolian sand in the form of low relief sandsheets as well as parabolic and transverse dunes that have...
- Cenozoic
- chronostratigraphy
- coastal dunes
- cores
- dates
- digital terrain models
- Door Peninsula
- dunes
- eolian features
- geomorphology
- Great Lakes
- Holocene
- Lake Michigan
- lake-level changes
- landform evolution
- laser methods
- lidar methods
- lithostratigraphy
- North America
- optically stimulated luminescence
- Quaternary
- relative age
- sediments
- shore features
- United States
- upper Holocene
- Wisconsin