Microfacies characteristics of a tropical, mangrove-fringed shoreline, Cleveland Bay, Queensland, Australia: Sedimentary and taphonomic controls on mangrove facies development

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 77-97

  Perry, Christopher T ^a   Berkeley, Andrew ^a   Smithers, Scott G ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES; TROPICS;

AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS; MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;

SUBSTRATES;

BIOCLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORAMINIFERA; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; MICROFACIES; MINERALIZATION; MUDFLAT; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORELINE; SUBSTRATE; TAPHONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLEVELAND BAY; QUEENSLAND;

FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSCA; OCYPODIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 39549116106     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.015     Document Type: Article

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