A Quaternary uplift record for the Auckland region, North Island, New Zealand, based on marine and fluvial terraces

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-394

  Claessens, L ^a,b   Veldkamp, A ^a   ten Broeke, E M ^a   Vloemans, H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Kenya)

Author keywords

fluvial terrace; marine terrace; New Zealand; tephrochronology; uplift

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ASH;

AUCKLAND; AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 69249090137     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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