Stable isotope record and its palaeoenvironmental interpretation for a late Middle Pleistocene speleothem from Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 763-774

  Desmarchelier, J M ^a,b   Goede, A ^a   Ayliffe, L K ^b   McCulloch, M T ^b   Moriarty, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRECESSION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034070473     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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