Holocene and modern sediment storage in the subtropical macrotidal Fitzroy River estuary, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Changes in the rates of floodplain and in-channel bench accretion in response to catchment disturbance, central Queensland, Australia

“…The argument presented here, that low level increases in postEuropean sediment yield are related to naturally high sediment loads, is also supported by the findings of Bostock et al (2007) from the lower parts of the Fitzroy River. Bostock et al (2007) estimated the mean annual sediment accumulation in the Fitzroy River estuary over the Holocene and concluded that the volumes of pre-disturbance sediment yield predicted by some previous modelling studies (e.g., Furnas, 2003;McKergow et al, 2005) were insufficient to account for the sediment deposited in the estuary.…”

“…Bostock et al (2007) estimated the mean annual sediment accumulation in the Fitzroy River estuary over the Holocene and concluded that the volumes of pre-disturbance sediment yield predicted by some previous modelling studies (e.g., Furnas, 2003;McKergow et al, 2005) were insufficient to account for the sediment deposited in the estuary. In Bostock et al (2007), as in this study, relatively high pre-disturbance suspended sediment yields are required to explain the observed rates of sediment storage.…”

A preliminary OSL chronology for coastal dunes on Moreton island, Queensland, Australia – Marginal deposits of A large-scale quaternary shelf sediment system

“…Knowledge of these Late Quaternary shelf sediment transport pathways and the identification of relict coastal depositional landforms can also be used to better constrain long-term modern coastal sediment budgets (e.g. Bostock et al, 2007), indicate likely areas of offshore groundwater discharge (e.g. Stieglitz, 2005;Loveless et al, 2008) and map the potential distribution of significant shelf and coastal mineral deposits (Garzanti et al, 2014).…”

UV-Spectral Luminescence Scanning: Technical Updates and Calibration Developments

“…All sampling sites were located within 50 km from the mouth of the Fitzroy River, which has a catchment area of 143,000 km 2 . The Fitzroy River is the major supplier of terrestrial suspended material to this part of the Great Barrier Reef and directly influences all four corals (Furnas 2003;Bostock et al 2007). Coral cores A, B, C and D date back to 1944, 1921, 1949 and 1956, respectively, of which we only assess the shared period 1957-2009 (Table 23.1).…”