Historical catchment changes and temporal impact on sediment of the receiving basin, Port Jackson, New South Wales

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-246

  Taylor, S E ^a   Birch, G F ^a   Links, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Estuary; Industrialisation; Lead 210 dating; Sediments; Sydney; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ESTUARY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; POLLUTION; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PORT JACKSON; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

EID: 3042858564     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1400-0952.2004.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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