Sand beach ridges record 6000 year history of extreme tropical cyclone activity in northeastern Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 1511-1520

  Nott, Jonathan ^a   Smithers, Scott ^a   Walsh, Kevin ^b   Rhodes, Ed ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESS; AUSTRALIA; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH INTENSITY; HISTORICAL RECORDS; LONG TERM RECORDS; OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; SAND BEACH; STORM TIDE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

COASTAL ZONES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAND; STORMS; TROPICS;

BEACHES;

BEACH RIDGE; EOLIAN PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE FORCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67349120544     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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