Tertiary Foundations and Quaternary Evolution of Coral Reef Systems of Australia's North West Shelf

The North West Shelf is a modern tropical ramp, which is underlain by Cretaceous-Tertiary carbonates, with clastic reservoirs at depth. Coral reef systems, discontinuously developed during the Late Tertiary-Quaternary, vary from fringing reefs to isolated reefs which rise from deep-ramp settings. Qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Lindsay
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26498