Great Barrier Reef: Terrigenous Sediment Flux and Human ImpactsPiers Larcombe, Ken Woolfe, Richard Purdon |
Contents
Foreword | P-3 |
The distribution of sediments and nutrients throughout the Whitsunday Islands | P-24 |
River flood plumes in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon | P-33 |
Copyright | |
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areas Australia Barrier Reef lagoon Barrier Reef Marine beach Belperio Bowling Green Bay Burdekin River Cairns Cape Flattery carbonate Carter catchment central Great Barrier channel chenier Cleveland Bay climate coast coastal coastline coral reefs core CRC Reef Research Cyclone Cyclone Winifred delta Department of Earth deposits discharge dredge material dunes Earth Sciences embayments environmental erosion estimates estuary facies flood plumes fluvial fringing reefs Furnas GBR lagoon GBR shelf GBRMPA Geology grain Holocene Hopley inner inner-shelf Island James Cook University Larcombe mangrove mercury mid-shelf Neil North Queensland nutrient offshore outer shelf Port Authority rainfall reef flat Reef Research Centre resuspension Ridd runoff saltflats samples sand sea-level rise seagrass seaward sediment flux sediment transport sediment yield sedimentary Sedimentology shelf sediments significant suspended sediment concentrations terrigenous terrigenous sediment tidal Townsville tropical Tully Tully River turbidity Upstart Bay wave Whitsunday Islands winds Wolanski Woolfe zone