Coarse clast ridge sequences as suitable archives for past storm events? Case study on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 713-724

  Scheffers, Anja M ^a,d   Scheffers, Sander R ^a,d   Kelletat, Dieter H ^b   Squire, Peter ^a   Collins, Lindsay ^c   Feng, Yuexing ^d   Zhao, Jian Xin ^d   Joannes Boyau, Renaud ^a   May, Simon Matthias ^b   Schellmann, Gerhard ^e   Freeman, Heather ^c  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beach ridges; Coastal evolution; Geomorphology; Holocene; Palaeotempestology

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; CLAST; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CORAL REEF; HOLOCENE; TROPICAL CYCLONE EVENT; WESTERLY;

AUSTRALIA; HOUTMAN ABROLHOS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84867328294     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2558     Document Type: Article

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