Holocene filling of a narrow estuary in a regressive coast: The Paleo-Kinu Bay region, central Japan

Stratigraphic Framework, Paleoenvironments, and Indigenous Terraforming of Inshore Estuarine Subbasins in Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A.

“…As “transitional waters” (McLusky and Elliot, 2007), estuaries link continental and marine biomes and facilitate exchanges of nutrients, organic matter, biota, and sediments (Baird and Ulanowicz, 1993; Elliott and Whitfield, 2011). Extant estuaries have formed over the past 8000 years in response to reduced rates of sea-level rise during the middle to late Holocene (Cronin et al ., 2007; Punwong, Selby, and Marchant, 2018; Tanabe, Nakashima, and Mizuno, 2022). Across subsequent millennia, human societies inhabiting transgressing estuarine zones developed coastal lifeways marked by population aggregation, sedentism, and sociopolitical stratification (Bailey and Milner, 2003; Gamble, 2017; Grier, 2014; Pluckhahn and Thompson, 2018; Riddick et al ., 2022).…”