A 30,000 year record of extreme floods in tropical Australia from relict plunge-pool deposits: Implications for future climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 379-382

  Nott, Jonathan F ^a   Price, David M ^b   Bryant, Edward A ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD RECORD; PLUNGE POOL; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY (LATE); SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0029768615     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00262     Document Type: Article

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