Landscape and regolith features related to Miocene leucitite lava flows, El Capitan northeast of Cobar, New South Wales

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  McQueen, K G ^a   Gonzalez, O R ^a   Roach, I C ^a   Pillans, B J ^b   Dunlap, W J ^b   Smith, M L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAVA FLOW; MIOCENE; OUTCROP; PALEOMAGNETISM; REGOLITH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WEATHERING PROFILE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; COBAR; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 34250807807     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120090600923311     Document Type: Article

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