Reconciliation of late Quaternary sea levels derived from coral terraces at Huon Peninsula with deep sea oxygen isotope records

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 227-236

  Chappell, John ^a   Omura, Akio ^b   Esat, Tezer ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm ^a   Pandolfi, John ^c   Ota, Yoko ^d   Pillans, Brad ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Smithsonian Institute   (Panama)

^d SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Huon Peninsula; O 18 O 16; Quaternary; Sea level changes; U 234 Th 230

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; LATE QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, HUON PENINSULA;

EID: 0030468581     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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