Waterfalls, floods and climate change: Evidence from tropical Australia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-276

  Nott, Jonathan ^a   Price, David ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Northern Territory Australia; Paleofloods; Tropical environment; Waterfalls

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATERFALL;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032736569     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00152-1     Document Type: Article

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