A dynamic process for drowning carbonate reefs on the northeastern Australian margin

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-14

  DiCarpio, Lydia ^a,b   Müller, R Dietmar ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CARBONATE REEF; CORAL REEF; DYNAMIC PROCESS; GROWTH POTENTIAL; LATE MIOCENE; MANTLE FLOW; MIOCENE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLIOCENE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SINKING SLABS; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE;

ACCIDENTS; CARBONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); SUBSIDENCE;

REEFS;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; GEOLOGICAL TIME; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE;

AUSTRALIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 73849150431     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30217.1     Document Type: Article

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