Sediment flux across the Great Barrier Reef Shelf to the Queensland Trough over the last 300 ky

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 49-92

  Dunbar, G B ^a   Dickens, G R ^a   Carter, R M ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Great Barrier Reef; Late Quaternary; Queensland Trough; Sediment flux; Sedimentation rates; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BARRIER REEF; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033948320     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00027-0     Document Type: Article

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