Drainage reorientation in Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, during the Last Interglacial

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-20

  Craw, Dave ^a   Anderson, Leigh ^a   Rieser, Uwe ^b   Waters, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Marlborough Sounds; OSL dating; Quaternary; River capture; Sedimentation; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; DRAINAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OVERTOPPING; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TERRACE;

AUSTRALASIA; MARLBOROUGH; MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 34247633508     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288300709509815     Document Type: Article

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