Lake Eyre palaeohydrology from 60 ka to the present: Beach ridges and glacial maximum aridity

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 307-329

  Magee, John W ^a   Miller, Gifford H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Aridity; Beach ridges; Eggshell; Lake Eyre; Palaeohydrology; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

PALEOHYDROLOGY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 0032409429     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00124-2     Document Type: Article

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