Stratigraphy of Quaternary inner-shelf sediments in Tai O Bay, Hong Kong, based on ground-truthed seismic profiles

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-33

  Bahr, A ^a,e   Wong, H K ^a   Yim, W W S ^b   Huang, G ^c   Ludmann T ^a   Chan, L S ^b   Ridley Thomas, W N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d EGS (Asia) Ltd   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; EROSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY (AMS); BEDROCK; FLUVIAL EROSION; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEISMIC PROFILES;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF SEDIMENT; SYSTEMS TRACT;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; LANTAU ISLAND; TAI O BAY; WORLD;

EID: 14244266199     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-004-0185-y     Document Type: Article

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