Mind the gap: An absence of valley-fill deposits identifying the Holocene hypsithermal period of enhanced flow regime in southeastern Australia

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 411-418

  Cohen, T J ^a   Nanson, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alluvial chronostratigraphy; Australia; Climate change; Floodplain formation; Flow regime change; Holocene; Threshold response; Upland swamp; Valley fill

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CATCHMENT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPSITHERMAL; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; VALLEY FILL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34347376990     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607076475     Document Type: Review

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