Diagenetic rejuvenation of raised coral reefs and precision of dating. The contribution of the Red Sea reefs to the question of reliability of the Uranium-series datings of middle to late Pleistocene key reef-terraces of the world

Carnets de Geologie

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-35

  Plaziat, Jean Claude ^a   Reyss, Jean Louis ^b   Choukri, Abdelmajid ^c   Cazala, Charlotte ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

Australia; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermudes; Coral reef; Diagenesls; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Glaciation; Jordan; Papua New Guinea; Pleistocene; Red sea; Rejuvenation hypothesis; Sea level change; Sudan; Th U dating

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL REEF; DATING METHOD; DIAGENESIS; EUSTACY; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AFRICA; ASIA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BAHAMAS; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DJIBOUTI [EAST AFRICA]; EAST AFRICA; EGYPT; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; JORDAN; LESSER ANTILLES; MELANESIA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 45949099314     PISSN: 16340744     EISSN: 17652553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4267/2042/16743     Document Type: Article

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