Tracing the source of sediment and phosphorus into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 249-258

  McCulloch, Malcolm ^a   Pailles, Christine ^a,b   Moody, Philip ^b   Martin, Candace E ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Natural Resource Sciences ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Degradation; Great Barrier Reef; Neodymium strontium isotopes; Sediment phosphorus tracing

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; LAGOON; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PHOSPHORUS; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0038692070     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00145-6     Document Type: Article

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