Amino acid racemisation dating of a last interglacial estuarine deposit at Largs, New South Wales

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1996, Issue 116, 1996, Pages 213-222

  Murray Wallace, C V ^a   Leary, S P ^b   Kimber, R W L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemisation; Last interglacial; New South Wales; Quaternary Period

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142535071     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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