Mid-Pleistocene cave fills, megafaunal remains and climate change at Naracoorte, South Australia: Towards a predictive model using U-Th dating of speleothems

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 113-143

  Moriarty, Kevin C ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^b   Wells, Roderick T ^a   McDowell, Matthew C ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cave sediments; Megafauna; Pleistocene palaeoenvironments; Speleothems; TIMS U Th dating

Indexed keywords

CAVE; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LIMESTONE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034213105     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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