Holocene history and a thermoluminescence based chronology of coastal dune ridges near Leithfield, North Canterbury, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-32

  Shulmeister, James ^a   Kirk, Robert M ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

C 14 dating; Canterbury; Dune ridges; Fohn wind; Holocene; Pegasus Bay; Thermoluminescence dating

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROGRADATION; DUNE RIDGE; HOLOCENE; MORPHOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, CANTERBURY, LEITHFIELD;

EID: 0029729226     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514692     Document Type: Article

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