Early Pleistocene stratigraphy and timing of the Bulgobac Glaciation, Western Tasmania, Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 253-267

  Augustinus, P C ^a,c   Macphail, M K ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bulgobac Glaciation; Early Pleistocene; magnetostratigraphy; Marionoak Formation; pollen; western Tasmania

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CHRONOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY; POLLEN ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, PIEMAN RIVER;

EID: 0030620747     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00083-1     Document Type: Article

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