Surficial sediments of the great australian bight: facies dynamics and oceanography on a vast cool-water carbonate shelf

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 549-567

  James, Noel P ^a   Bone, Yvonne ^a   Collins, Lindsay B ^a   Kurtis Kyser, T ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

ACTIVE SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; COASTAL UPWELLING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOL-WATER CARBONATES; DOWN-WELLING; HARD SUBSTRATE;

SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FACIES; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034887379     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/102000710549     Document Type: Article

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