Continental shelves, including contributions from the 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns

摘要

During the 17th INQUA Congress in Cairns, Australia in 2007 a session on continental shelves - sea-levels, environments and carbon budgets - was held. The main aim of this session was to enable researchers working on this important yet much neglected part of the Earth's system to present their latest findings. Five out of 13 papers included in this special issue were presented during this session. This volume is a contribution by the Sub-commission on Continental Shelves, INQUA Commission on Coastal and Marine Processes, and International Geoscience Programme Project No. 526 'Risk, resources, and record of the past on the continental shelf.