Lowstand rivers need not incise the shelf: An example from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with implications for sequence stratigraphic models

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-78

  Woolfe, Ken J ^a   Larcombe, Piers ^a   Naish, Tim ^a   Purdon, Richard G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REEFS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FLUVIAL INCISION; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SHELF BREAK; WIDE SPREADS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RIVER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE; FLUVIAL INCISION; LOWSTAND; QUATERNARY SEA LEVEL; SUBAERIAL ACCOMMODATION;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 0031971746     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0075:LRNNIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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