Fingerprinting Australia's rivers with clay minerals and the application for the marine record of climate change

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-348

  Gingele, F X ^a   De Deckker, P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Clay minerals; Climate change; Last Glacial Maximum; Palaeoceanography; Quaternary; Rivers

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 4444328462     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1400-0952.2004.01061.x     Document Type: Article

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