Late Quaternary landscape evolution in the Keep River region, northwestern Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 16-17, 2005, Pages 1906-1922

  Ward, I A K ^a,d   Nanson, G C ^a   Head, L M ^a   Fullagar, R L K ^b   Price, D M ^a   Fink, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d 17 Brickfield Cottages ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; LANDSLIDES; LUMINESCENCE; SAND; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES; COSMOGENIC DATING; SAND SHEETS; SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES;

LANDFORMS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KEEP RIVER; NORTHERN TERRITORY; WORLD;

EID: 22144440573     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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