Coastal forms and quaternary processes along the arid Pilbara coast of northwestern Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 49-84

  Semeniuk, V ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL STRATIGRAPHY; EVAPORATION; QUATERNARY PROCESSES;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PILBARA;

EID: 0030176978     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(96)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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