W&M ScholarWorks VIMS Articles 2008 Building the Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua: An ocean circulation study Rudy Slingerland The Pennsylvania State University Robert W. Selover The Pennsylvania State University Andrea S. Ogston University of Washington Timothy R. Keen Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center Neal W. Driscoll Scripps Institution of Oceanography See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles Part of the Marine Biology Commons Recommended Citation Slingerland, Rudy; Selover, Robert W.; Ogston, Andrea S.; Keen, Timothy R.; Driscoll, Neal W.; and Milliman, John D., "Building the Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua: An ocean circulation study" (2008). VIMS Articles. 271. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/271 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in VIMS Articles by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Authors Rudy Slingerland, Robert W. Selover, Andrea S. Ogston, Timothy R. Keen, Neal W. Driscoll, and John D. Milliman This article is available at W&M ScholarWorks: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/271 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, F01S14, doi:10.1029/2006JF000680, 2008 Building the Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua: An ocean circulation study Rudy Slingerland,1 Robert W. Selover,1 Andrea S. Ogston,2 Timothy R. Keen,3 Neal W. Driscoll,4 and John D. Milliman5 Received 31 August 2006; revised 21 August 2007; accepted 15 November 2007; published 28 March 2008. [1] This paper investigates the role that tidal and wind-driven flows and buoyant river plumes play in the development of the Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua.