The Great Barrier Reef: A 700 000 year diagenetic history

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1591-1622

  Braithwaite, Colin J R ^a   Montaggioni, Lucien F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Diagenesis; Great Barrier Reef; Pleistocene; Sea level

Indexed keywords

BARRIER REEF; CALCITE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; GRAINSTONE; LIMESTONE; PETROGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER TABLE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 68549113690     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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