Using fluvial terraces to determine Holocene coastal erosion and Late Pleistocene uplift rates: An example from northwestern Hawke Bay, New Zealand

Geomorphology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 369-386

  Litchfield, Nicola J ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coastal erosion; Fluvial terrace; Holocene; New Zealand; Quaternary; Uplift

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; HAWKES BAY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 44749093416     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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