Variable rates of Late Quaternary surface uplift along the Banda Arc- Australian plate collision zone, eastern Indonesia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 146, Issue , 1998, Pages 213-224

  Merritts, Dorothy ^a   Eby, Rebecca ^b   Harris, Ron ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^d   Chang, Hai ^d  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRACE;

INDONESIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0032297213     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.12     Document Type: Article

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