Aeolian-fluvial interaction: Evidence for Late Quaternary channel change and wind-rift linear dune formation in the northwestern Simpson Desert, Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 142-162

  Hollands, Cameron B ^a   Nanson, Gerald C ^a   Jones, Brian G ^a   Bristow, Charlie S ^b   Price, David M ^a   Pietsch, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; SAND; SEDIMENTS;

AUSTRALIA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); LINEAR DUNES;

CATCHMENTS;

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EOLIAN PROCESS; FLUVIAL PROCESS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SIMPSON DESERT;

EID: 30144437102     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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