Post-glacial sea-level changes around the Australian margin: A review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-138

  Lewis, Stephen E ^a   Sloss, Craig R ^b   Murray Wallace, Colin V ^c   Woodroffe, Colin D ^c   Smithers, Scott G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Holocene; Post glacial; Sea level; Sea level change; Sea level indicators

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; POST-GLACIAL; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEA-LEVEL OSCILLATIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; GAGES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RESEARCH; TECTONICS;

SEA LEVEL;

ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEOTECTONICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POSTGLACIAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AUSTRALASIA;

EID: 84880594847     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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