Magnetostratigraphy of the uplifted former atoll of Niue, South Pacific: Implications for accretion history and carbonate diagenesis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 259-274

  Lu, Gang ^a   Aharon, Paul ^a   Wheeler, C W ^a   McCabe, Chad ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DIAGENESIS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOGENE;

COOK ISLANDS, NIUE; PACIFIC, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE;

EID: 0029833808     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(96)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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