Peat mounds of southwest Tasmania: Possible origins

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 667-677

  Macphail, M K ^a   Pemberton, M ^b   Jacobson, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon dating; Holocene; Palynology; Peat mounds; Pleistocene; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033371978     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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