Beach ridge systems - archives for holocene coastal events?

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-37

  Scheffers, Anja ^a   Engel, Max ^b   Scheffers, Sander ^a   Squire, Peter ^a   Kelletat, Dieter ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

beach ridges; climate change; extreme wave events; geoarchives; Holocene; palaeotempestology; storm frequency

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; BEACH RIDGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84856091382     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133311419549     Document Type: Review

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