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  title info:
    title: Reef-Platform Coral Boulders
    sub title: Evidence for High-Energy Marine Inundation Events on Tropical Coastlines
  name:
    name part: Terry, James P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lau, A Y Annie.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Etienne, Samuel.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 105 p. 44 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.e. large coral boulders) on tropical coastlines for understanding both modern and pre-historical (Holocene) high-magnitude marine inundation events. There has been a rapid groundswell of interest in large carbonate blocks on tropical coasts over the last decade, yet it is not widely appreciated that such features were observed and recorded back in the early explorations of Matthew Flinders on the Great Barrier Reef in the 1800s. This book will illuminate how various characteristics of datable carbonate blocks torn up from coral reefs and deposited on reef platforms yield importance evidence about the storms and tsunamis that emplaced them over decadal and centennial timescales. No comprehensive review has so far been published. A need now exists for a ‘definitive reference’ on coral boulder research, which details the earliest observations, changing terminology, sedimentology, and relevance for coastal hazard research in the tropics. A wide range of examples will be incorporated from across Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas, as well as a full up-to-date review of the existing literature.
  table of contents: Coastal Boulders: Introduction and Scope -- Historical review and changing terminology -- The Scientific Value of Reef-Platform Boulders for Interpreting Coastal Hazards -- Uncertainties and Continuing Challenges with Interpreting Coastal Boulders -- Case Study: Coastal Boulder Fields on Taveuni Island Coasts, Fiji -- Outlook for Boulder Studies Within Tropical Geomorphology and Coastal Research.
  note: by James P Terry, A Y Annie Lau, Samuel Etienne.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Historical geology
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Coasts
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Coastal Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Historical Geology
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  classification: GB450-460
  classification: 551.457
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
  identifier: 9789814451338
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-33-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 130417
    record change date: 20151204183441.0
    record identifier: 978-981-4451-33-8