500 ka precipitation record from southeastern Australia: Evidence for interglacial relative aridity

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-150

  Ayliffe, Linda K ^a   Marianelli, Pyramo C ^a   Moriarty, Kevin C ^b   Wells, Rod T ^b   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^a   Mortimer, Graham E ^a   Hellstrom, John C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL MAXIMA; INTERGLACIALS; INTERSTADIALS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPELEOTHEM; PALAEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION RECORD;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031961106     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0147:KPRFSA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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