Holocene and modern sediment storage in the subtropical macrotidal Fitzroy River estuary, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 201, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 321-340

  Bostock, Helen C ^a   Brooke, Brendan P ^a   Ryan, David A ^a   Hancock, Gary ^b   Pietsch, Tim ^b   Packett, Robert ^c   Harle, Kate ^b  

^a Petroleum and Marine Division   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dry tropics; Floodplain stratigraphy; Great Barrier Reef sediments; Holocene; Macrotidal estuary; Sediment storage

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL CURRENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; FITZROY RIVER; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 34848868771     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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