Late Quaternary history of the Nouméa lagoon (New Caledonia, South West Pacific) as depicted by seismic stratigraphy and multibeam bathymetry. A modern model of tropical rimmed shelf

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 270, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 29-45

  Le Roy, P ^a,b   Cabioch, G ^c   Monod, B ^d   Lagabrielle, Y ^e   Pelletier, B ^f   Flamand, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^d UFR Sciences IPRA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Incised valleys; Lagoon; New Caledonia; Seismic and sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BARRIER REEF; BATHYMETRY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EROSION; EVOLUTION; INCISED VALLEY; LAGOON; OPEN OCEAN; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NEW CALEDONIA [NEW CALEDONIA (DPN)]; NOUMEA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 56349103065     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.08.012     Document Type: Article

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