Development of an inshore fringing coral reef using textural, compositional and stratigraphic data from Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Marine Geology

Volumn 299-302, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-32

  Lewis, Stephen E ^a   Wüst, Raphael A J ^a   Webster, Jody M ^a   Shields, Graham A ^a   Renema, Willem ^b   Lough, Janice M ^c   Jacobsen, Geraldine ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fringing reefs; Great Barrier Reef; Magnetic Island; Reef accretion; Reef evolution; Reef initiation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION RATE; AGE STRUCTURES; AUSTRALIA; CORAL REEF; CORAL RUBBLE; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HOLOCENES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LATE HOLOCENE; LOG DATA; MAGNETIC ISLAND; MATERIAL-BASED; MUDDY SAND; MULTI PROXIES; PLEISTOCENE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; U-SERIES; VERTICAL ACCRETION;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

REEFS;

ACCRETION; AGE STRUCTURE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORAL REEF; FACIES; FRINGING REEF; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; MAGNETIC ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84857132756     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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