Anatomy of the buried Burdekin River channel across the Great Barrier Reef shelf: How does a major river operate on a tropical mixed siliciclastic/carbonate margin during sea level lowstand?

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 157, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 291-301

  Fielding, C R ^a   Trueman, J D ^a   Dickens, G R ^b,c   Page, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Great Barrier Reef; Palaeochannel; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; PALEOCHANNEL; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSGRESSION;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT BARRIER REEF;

EID: 0037461121     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00238-5     Document Type: Article

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