Fraser Island (K'gari) and initiation of the Great Barrier Reef linked by Middle Pleistocene sea-level change

D Ellerton, TM Rittenour, J Shulmeister, AP Roberts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The eastern Australia coastline is characterized by impressive coastal landforms and an
extensive northward-moving longshore drift system that have been influenced by a stable …

A cenozoic great barrier reef on Australia's north west shelf

JC McCaffrey, MW Wallace, SJ Gallagher - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest modern coral reef system on Earth.
However, a similar-sized barrier reef (~ 2000 km long) existed on Australia's north-western …

Holocene reef sequences and geochemistry, Britomart reef, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

D Johnson, C Cuff, E Rhodes - Sedimentology, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
Holocene reef development was investigated by coring on Britomart Reef, a mid‐shelf reef,
23 km long and 8 km wide situated 120 km north of Townsville in the central Great Barrier …

Tertiary foundations and Quaternary evolution of coral reef systems of Australia's North West Shelf

L Collins - The sedimentary basins of Western Australia 3 …, 2002 - espace.curtin.edu.au
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 …

Holocene growth history of a reef complex on a cool-water carbonate margin: Easter Group of the Houtman Abrolhos, Eastern Indian Ocean

LB Collins, ZR Zhu, KH Wyrwoll, BG Hatcher… - Marine Geology, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract The Houtman Abrolhos reefs, situated on the western continental margin of
Australia, occupy a transitional position between cool-water shelf carbonate sediments to …

A new coral reef province in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: colonisation, growth and submergence during the early Holocene

PT Harris, AD Heap, JF Marshall, M McCulloch - Marine Geology, 2008 - Elsevier
Multibeam sonar mapping, drill cores and underwater video data have confirmed the
existence of a previously unknown coral reef province in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia …

[PDF][PDF] Holocene growth history and evolution of the Scott Reef carbonate platform and coral reef

LB Collins, V Testa, J Zhao, D Qu - Journal of the Royal Society of …, 2011 - academia.edu
As a prominent isolated oceanic atoll-like reef within the Oceanic Shoals Biozone to the west
of the Kimberley coast, Scott Reef is a small carbonate platform located in a distal ramp …

Holocene reef evolution in a macrotidal setting: buccaneer archipelago, kimberley bioregion, northwest Australia

T Solihuddin, MJ O'Leary, D Blakeway, I Parnum… - Coral Reefs, 2016 - Springer
This study uses information derived from cores to describe the Holocene accretion history of
coral reefs in the macrotidal (up to 11 m tidal range) Buccaneer Archipelago of the southern …

The structure of the Easter Platform, Houtman Abrolhos reefs: Pleistocene foundations and Holocene reef growth

LB Collins, ZR Zhu, KH Wyrwoll - Marine Geology, 1996 - Elsevier
Seismic reflection profiles have been used to expand an evolutionary model developed from
a drilling and dating program of the Easter Platform, one of three shelf-edge coral reef …

A pre-cursor extensive Miocene reef system to the Rowley Shoals reefs, Western Australia: evidence for structural control of reef growth or natural hydrocarbon …

G Ryan, G Bernardel, J Kennard, AT Jones… - The APPEA …, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Numerous Miocene reefs and related carbonate build-ups have been identified in the
Rowley Shoals region of the central North West Shelf, offshore Western Australia. The reefs …