“Walking with the Ancients” in the Southern California Continental Borderland

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Authors

Robert D. Ballard
Larry A. Mayer, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow
Kenneth Broad
Dwight F. Coleman
Erin Heffron
Val Schmidt, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow

Abstract

“Walking with the Ancients” was the fifth in a series of E/V Nautilus expeditions to the Channel Islands and the Southern California Continental Borderland that began in 2016. Cruise sponsors were NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, the Office of Naval Research, the National Geographic Society, and the Lounsbery Foundation. The primary focus of the five expeditions was to discover and investigate submerged caves carved by the sea since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) some 19,000 years ago. When the great continental ice sheets began to melt, sea level rose discontinuously, creating a series of paleoshorelines.

Publication Date

3-1-2019

Journal Title

Oceanography

Publisher

The Oceanography Society

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.supplement.01

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

R. Ballard, Mayer, L. A., Broad, K., Coleman, D. F., Heffron, E., and Schmidt, V., ““Walking with the Ancients” in the Southern California Continental Borderland”, Oceanography, vol. vol. 32(1). The Oceanography Society, pp. 54-55, 2019.

Comments

This is an open access article published by The Oceanography Society in Oceanography in 2019, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.supplement.01