The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity and ChangeCambridge University Press, 17. 5. 2007. This 2007 book reviews the history of geomorphological studies of the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanographic processes on the development of reefs over the last 10,000 years. It presents analyses of recently attained data from the Great Barrier Reef and reconstructions of the sequence of events which have led to its more recent geomorphology. The authors emphasise the importance of the geomorphological time span and its applications for present management applications. This is a valuable reference for academic researchers in geomorphology and oceanography, and will also appeal to graduate students in related fields. |
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... coastal geomorphologist) and his colleague Michael Spender mounted a geomorphological expedition to the GBR in 1928–29 asa companion program to the Royal Society'slarger program on Low Isles (see, for example, Bowen and Bowen, 2002), it ...
... coastal geomorphologist) and his colleague Michael Spender mounted a geomorphological expedition to the GBR in 1928–29 asa companion program to the Royal Society'slarger program on Low Isles (see, for example, Bowen and Bowen, 2002), it ...
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... coastal ranges these rivers were able to isolate large areas of westward sloping but eastward draining tablelands. Nearer to the coast the most resistant rocks (mainly granites) of what had been the initial and highest coastal divide ...
... coastal ranges these rivers were able to isolate large areas of westward sloping but eastward draining tablelands. Nearer to the coast the most resistant rocks (mainly granites) of what had been the initial and highest coastal divide ...
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... coastal plain which is dominated by weathered clay soils. The unconsolidated deposits overlie bedrock typically by 30–150m though numerous outcrops occur as coastal hills on the coastal plain, as headlands along the coast, and as ...
... coastal plain which is dominated by weathered clay soils. The unconsolidated deposits overlie bedrock typically by 30–150m though numerous outcrops occur as coastal hills on the coastal plain, as headlands along the coast, and as ...
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... coastal escarpment, the outer shelf was also formed from a series of rift basins which were filled initially with fluvial and colluvial sediment. (2) 24–15Ma – the major marine transgression of this time, together with marginal ...
... coastal escarpment, the outer shelf was also formed from a series of rift basins which were filled initially with fluvial and colluvial sediment. (2) 24–15Ma – the major marine transgression of this time, together with marginal ...
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