Shore platform development on an uplifting limestone island over multiple sea-level cycles, Niue, South Pacific

Geomorphology

Volumn 141-142, Issue , 2012, Pages 170-182

  Kennedy, David M ^a   Marsters, T Helene ^b,d   Woods, Josephine L D ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Atoll; Coral reef; Microatolls; Sea level; Shore platform; Terrace

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ATOLL; CAVE; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; EROSION; FRINGING REEF; GEOMORPHOLOGY; KARST; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIMESTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORE PLATFORM; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

NIUE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84856452146     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.041     Document Type: Article

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