Late quaternary coseismic uplift history of Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-22

  Chappell, John ^a   Ota, Yoko ^b   Berryman, Kelvin ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; COSEISMIC UPLIFT; INTERGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY (LATE); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRACE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, HUON PENINSULA;

EID: 0030302488     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-3791(95)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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