The chronology of Funafuti Atoll: Revisiting an old friend

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 458, Issue 2025, 2002, Pages 2289-2306

  Ohde, Shigeru ^a   Greaves, Mervyn ^a   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Buckley, Henry A ^a   Van Woesik, Robert ^a   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Pirazzoli, Paolo A ^a   Elderfield, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronology; Coral reef growth; Erosion; Funafuti Atoll; Sea level change; Strontium isotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042735031     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.0978     Document Type: Article

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