Sorted bedforms on the inner shelf off northeastern New Zealand: Spatiotemporal relationships and potential paleo-environmental implications

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Trembanis, Arthur C ^a   Hume, Terry M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; HIGH ENERGY; LOW ENERGIES; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHORT CORE; SORTING PROCESS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; STUDY SITES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEDFORM; BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAIRUA; WAIKATO;

EID: 79956038448     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0225-8     Document Type: Article

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