High frequency of 'super-cyclones' along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6855, 2001, Pages 508-512

  Nott, Jonathan ^a   Hayne, Matthew ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES;

STORMS;

CYCLONE; HOLOCENE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CNIDARIA; TIME; TREES; WEATHER; WIND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0035807354     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35097055     Document Type: Article

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