Landscape history of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-208

  Nicol, A ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Drowned valleys; Eustatic sea level changes; Marlborough sounds; Ria; Subsidence; Wanganui basin

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBSIDENCE;

MARLBOROUGH; MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 79959631896     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2010.523079     Document Type: Review

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