Cowley Beach in northeastern Queensland contains a strandplain of 36 beach ridges deposited over approximately 7,000 years. The dataset likely contains a fine-scale digital elevation model used to examine ridge morphology and its correlation with regional sea-level history, including a highstand around 6,000 years BP. The data was published by Brendan P. Brooke et al. in Marine Geology in 2019.
Use Cases
- Modeling coastal progradation patterns based on beach ridge morphology
- Correlating coastal elevation changes with regional sea-level indicators
- Analyzing the frequency of storm events based on erosional unconformities and storm-surge deposits
- Testing sea-level reconstruction models based on the distribution of elevation classes across the strandplain
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific coastal landform with 36 prominent beach ridges
- Data covers a long-term temporal record of approximately 7,000 years
- Analysis compares elevation patterns with published Holocene sea-level data for the region
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Utilized a fine-scale digital elevation model of a beach-ridge strandplain.
- Time Range
- Holocene, approximately 7,000 years.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 15:52:55.095119; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Cowley Beach, northeastern Queensland, Australia.