Form, function and feedbacks in a tidally dominated ooid shoal, Bahamas

Sedimentology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1191-1210

  Rankey, Eugene C ^a   Riegl, Bernhard ^b   Steffen, Kelley ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Carbonate; Holocene; Morphodynamics; Ooid

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GIS; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; OOID; REMOTE SENSING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

LILIUM;

EID: 33751198908     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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