Eustatic and palaeoenvironmental assessment of the mid-Cretaceous Bathurst Island Group of the Money Shoals Platform, northern Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 115-138

  Henderson, R A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Eustacy; Sedimentary facies; Shelf; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EUSTASY; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PLATFORM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AUSTRALIA;

ALBIA;

EID: 0032055732     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00112-0     Document Type: Article

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