A preliminary OSL chronology for coastal dunes on Moreton island, Queensland, Australia - Marginal deposits of A large-scale quaternary shelf sediment system

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-94

  Brooke, Brendan P ^a   Pietsch, Timothy J ^b   Olley, Jon M ^b   Sloss, Craig R ^c   Cox, Malcolm E ^c  

^a National Earth and Marine Observations Group Geoscience Australia   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal barriers; Continental shelf sediments; Glacioeustatic sea level; OSL dating; Quaternary coastal dunes; Shelf sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUNE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOEUSTACY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF SEDIMENT; SHORELINE;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84934964129     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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