The evolution of coastal barrier systems: A case study of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Wilderness barriers, South Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 63-81

  Bateman, Mark D ^a   Carr, Andrew S ^b   Dunajko, Adam C ^a   Holmes, Peter J ^c   Roberts, David L ^d   McLaren, Sue J ^b   Bryant, Robert G ^a   Marker, Margaret E ^e   Murray Wallace, Colin V ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^d Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^e University of Wollongong ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER SYSTEMS; COASTAL BARRIER; COASTAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; HUMID CLIMATES; INTERGLACIALS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; OFF SHORE PLATFORMS; OFF-SHORE; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOUTH AFRICA; TECTONIC STABILITY; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; VEGETATED LANDSCAPES;

LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; SEA LEVEL;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETION; BATHYMETRY; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DATA SET; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EROSION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOEUSTACY; HIGHSTAND; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION; REGRESSION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; WILDERNESS AREA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 78650518377     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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