A comparison of reef-protected environments in Western Australia: The central west and Ningaloo coasts

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 397-419

  Sanderson, Peta G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coast; Cuspate foreland; Reefs; Tombolo; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; REEF;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034095331     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(200004)25:4<397::AID-ESP62>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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