New U/Th ages for Pleistocene megafauna deposits of southeastern Queensland, Australia

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-197

  Price, Gilbert J ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^a   Feng, Yue xing ^a   Hocknull, Scott A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Extinction; Megafauna; Pleistocene; U series dating

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FAUNA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS;

EID: 53849106086     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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