Quaternary reef response to sea-level and environmental change in the western Atlantic

Sedimentology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 429-465

  Gischler, Eberhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antecedent topography; Atlantic; Climate; Environmental change; Holocene; Pleistocene; Postglacial; Quaternary; Reef; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CARBONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; DETERIORATION; EUTROPHICATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LIME; NUTRIENTS; REEFS; STORMS; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY;

SEA LEVEL;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST);

ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84921750703     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12174     Document Type: Article

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