Mid-Holocene sea-level and coral reef demise: U-Th dating of subfossil corals in Moreton Bay, Australia

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1841-1852

  Leonard, Nicole D ^a   Welsh, Kevin J ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^a   Nothdurft, Luke D ^b   Webb, Gregory E ^a   Major, Josef ^b   Feng, Yuexing ^a   Price, Gilbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; fossil coral; mid Holocene; Moreton Bay; reef demise; sea level; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; DATING METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; INSTRUMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84888623843     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613508156     Document Type: Article

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