Formation and fate of sedimentary depocentres on Southeast Asia's Sunda Shelf over the past sea-level cycle and biogeographic implications

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 92-110

  Hanebuth, Till J J ^a   Voris, Harold K ^b   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^c,d   Saito, Yoshiki ^e   Okuno, Jun'ichi ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Late Quaternary stratigraphy; Peat formation; Siliciclastic shelf architecture; Source to sink sediment path

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOCENTER; MASS WASTING; PEATLAND; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SUNDA SHELF;

EID: 78650520503     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.09.006     Document Type: Review

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