Penultimate Interglacial emerged reef around Kadavu Island, Southwest Pacific: Implications for late Quaternary island-arc tectonics and sea-level history

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-227

  Nunn, Patrick D ^a   Omura, Akio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coral reef upgrowth; Island volcanism; Penultimate Interglacial; Sea level change; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; PLATE MOTION; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

FIJI; KADAVU;

EID: 0033150094     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514841     Document Type: Article

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