Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in southeastern Australia: Palynological evidence from marine core E55-6

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 465-483

  Harle, K J ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cores; Late Quaternary; Oxygen isotope; Palynology; Southeastern Australia

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY VEGETATION; VEGETATION CHANGE;

AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ASTERACEAE; CASUARINA; EUCALYPTUS; MYRTACEAE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030881869     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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