Constraints on the amplitude of late Pliocene eustatic sea-level fluctuations: New evidence from the New Zealand shallow-marine sediment record

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1139-1142

  Naish, Tim ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

SEA LEVEL;

AMPLITUDE; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOTHEM; EUSTACY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEOGENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; EUSTASY; MARINE SEDIMENT;

MANAWATU-WANGANUI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; RANGITIKEI RIVER; SJAELLAND; WANGANUI BASIN;

EID: 0031426092     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1139:COTAOL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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