Rates of shoreline progradation during the last 1700 years at Beachmere, Southeastern Queensland, Australia, based on optically stimulated luminescence dating of beach ridges

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 640-648

  Brooke, Brendan ^a   Lee, Roland ^b   Cox, Malcolm ^b   Olley, Jon ^c   Pietsch, Tim ^c  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach sediments; Coastal evolution; Shoreline erosion

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH RIDGE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OPTICAL METHOD; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORELINE CHANGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BEACHMERE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 44649154529     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/04-0375.1     Document Type: Article

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