Bulletin, Issue 170Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, 1977 - Geology |
Contents
HYDROLOGY | 28 |
DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS | 35 |
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS | 37 |
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abundant alluvial aragonite biogenic Broad Sound Broad Sound area Broad Sound sediments calcareous calcite Charon Point chenier clay mineralogy coastal grasslands coastal plains Current velocity depositional environments dolomite east side estuary facies feature flanking fluvial Geol grainsize distribution gravel heavy minerals Herbert Creek Holocene Hoogly illite indurated intertidal sands intertidal zone kaolinite kurtosis landward late Holocene Lawrence Creek mangrove swamp environment material mean grainsize megaripples metres montmorillonite Mud Sand muddy sand mudflats non-carbonate offshore open intertidal environment Palaeozoic percent Plate pre-Holocene progradation quartz radiocarbon age relict result samples sand bodies sand fraction sand ridges sea level seaward sedimentary sediments seismic sequence shallow marine environment shells shown in Figure side of Broad skewness south of Charon St Lawrence standard deviation Styx River subaerial subtidal supratidal flat environment supratidal flats supratidal zone terrigenous Textural distribution tidal currents tidal range tion Torilla Plains area Uplands vironment Waverley Creek