Microatoll record for large century-scale sea-level fluctuations in the mid-Holocene

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-360

  Yu, Ke Fu ^a,b   Zhao, Jian Xin ^b   Done, Terry ^c   Chen, Te Gu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Microatoll; Mid Holocene; Sea level; South China Sea; U series

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CORAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; LEIZHOU PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 63549102219     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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