Relative sea level response to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediment loading along the Great Barrier Reef margin

Pii: S0037-0738(00)00027-0

The continental margin off northeast Australia, comprising the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) platform and Queensland Trough, is the largest tropical mixed siliciclastic /carbonate depositional system in existence. We describe a suite of 35 piston cores and two Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) sites from a 130 × 240 km rectangular area of the Queensland Trough, the slope and basin setting east of the cen...

Late Holocene island reef development on the inner zone of the northern Great Barrier Reef: Insights from Low Isles Reef

A sedimentological and stratigraphic study of Low Isles Reef off northern Queensland, Australia was carried out to improve understanding of factors that have governed Late Holocene carbonate deposition and reef development on the inner to middle shelf of the northern Great Barrier Reef. Low Isles Reef is one of 46 low wooded island-reefs unique to the northern Great Barrier Reef, which are situ...

Oil Spill Response in the Great Barrier Reef Region

Timing and magnitude of Miocene eustasy derived from the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate stratigraphic record of the northeastern Australian margin

Article history: Received 12 August 2010 Received in revised form 24 January 2011 Accepted 6 February 2011 Editor: P. DeMenocal

Quantifying the sources of pollutants in the Great Barrier Reef catchments and the relative risk to reef ecosystems.

Development of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchments in the last 150 years has increased the loads of suspended sediment, nutrients and pesticides ('pollutants') delivered to the GBR. The scale and type of development, the pollutants generated and the ecosystems offshore vary regionally. We analysed the relative risk of pollutants from agricultural land uses and identified the sources of thes...