Submerged reef terraces of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 511-515

  Fürstenau, Jörn ^a   Lindhorst, Sebastian ^a   Betzler, Christian ^a   Hübscher, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEGLACIAL; FAR-FIELD; HOLOCENES; INDIAN OCEAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MALDIVES; MELTWATER PULSE; MULTI-BEAM; MULTIBEAM DATA; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SUBMERGED REEFS;

ACCIDENTS; ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

REEFS;

ATOLL; GROWTH RATE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTWATER; MORPHOLOGY; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRACE;

MALDIVES;

EID: 77956702345     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0174-2     Document Type: Article

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