Late Cenozoic emergence of the islands of the northern Lau-Colville Ridge, southwest Pacific

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 146, Issue , 1998, Pages 269-278

  Nunn, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

FIJI;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0032287716     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.16     Document Type: Article

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