Beach ridges and prograded beach deposits as palaeoenvironment records

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 279-297

  Tamura, Toru ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beach ridges; Catastrophic event; Climate; Coastal progradation; Palaeoenvironmental interpretation; Sea level

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH RIDGE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL EVOLUTION; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROGRADATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SANDBAR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHORELINE;

EID: 85027923623     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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