The initiation of the southern central Great Barrier Reef: New multiproxy data from Pleistocene distal sediments from the Marion Plateau (NE Australia)

Marine Geology

Volumn 250, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 223-233

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a   Kindler, Pascal ^a   Spezzaferri, Silvia ^b   Coric, Stjepan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

carbonate sedimentology; Great Barrier Reef; Marion Plateau; mixed carbonate siliciclastic sediments; Pleistocene reef development

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENTOLOGY; GREAT BARRIER REEF; MARION PLATEAU; MIXED CARBONATE-SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; PLEISTOCENE REEF DEVELOPMENT;

GEOLOGY; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTS;

REEFS;

BARRIER REEF; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; MARION PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 41949084777     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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