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Comment on: Coarse clast ridge sequences as suitable archives for past storm events? Case study on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia
Author(s) -
Nott Jonathan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of quaternary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.142
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-1417
pISSN - 0267-8179
DOI - 10.1002/jqs.2610
Subject(s) - ridge , storm , holocene , geology , palaeogeography , tropical cyclone , paleoecology , oceanography , archaeology , history , paleontology , volcanism , tectonics
Scheffers et al. (2012) have undertaken a study of the origins of coral rubble ridges on the Abrolhos Islands off the south-west Western Australian coast. Based on this study, in a temperate setting, they have attempted to make comparisons with and draw conclusions about the origin of both coral rubble and sand beach ridges in tropical Australia, which is a vastly different climatic and oceanographic setting. In so doing they have made a series of flawed assertions and display a lack of understanding of the processes leading to the formation of tropical cyclone constructed ridges in northern Australia and the methodologies used to derive magnitude and frequency records of tropical cyclones from these ridge sequences