Holocene sedimentation, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and history of the Canning Coast, North-Western Australia

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 91, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 53-148

  Semeniuk, V ^a  

^a V and C Semeniuk Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Canning basin; Canning coast; Holocene biostratigraphy; Holocene palaeogeography; Holocene sedimentation; Holocene stratigraphy; Sea level history

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ALLUVIAL FAN; BIOCOENOSIS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCARENITE; CARBONATE; COASTAL EROSION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUNE; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LIMESTONE; MANGROVE; MESOZOIC; MOLLUSC; OOID; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; RETROGRESSION; SEDIMENTATION; TERTIARY; THANATOCENOSIS; TRANSGRESSION;

AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSCA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 77954851226     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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