Authors / CoAuthors
Webster, I. | Atkinson, I. | Bostock, H. | Brooke, B. | Douglas, G. | Ford, P. | Hancock, G. | Herzfeld, M. | Leeming, R. | Lemckert, C. | Margvelashvili, N. | Noble, B. | Oubelkheir, K. | Radke, L. | Revill, A. | Robson, B. | Ryan, D. | Schacht, C. | Smith, C. | Smith, J. | Vincente-Beckett, V. | Wild-Allen, K.
Abstract
The Fitzroy catchment is the largest Queensland catchment discharging to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon. Sediments and nutrients together with anthropogenic pollutants originating upstream in the catchment are discharged from the Fitzroy River via the Fitzroy Estuary (FE) and ultimately into Keppel Bay (KB). The estuary and the bay act as natural chemical reactors where the materials delivered undergo chemical and physical transformations before some are deposited and stored in the growing deltaic and beach areas, with the remainder transported eastward to the southern zone of the GBR lagoon.
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70239
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- External PublicationReport
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- coasts
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- sedimentology
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- geomorphology
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- geochemistry
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- marine
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Earth Sciences
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2005-01-01T00:00:00
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[-23.666666, -23.0, 150.5, 151.166666]
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