Pre-Quaternary landscape inheritance in Australia

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 439-447

  Pillans, Brad ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Dating methods; Landscape evolution; Regolith

Indexed keywords

APATITE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGOLITH; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34250862624     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1131     Document Type: Article

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