Evidence for dynamic climate change on sub-106-year scales from the late Paleozoic glacial record, Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 56-82

  Birgenheier, Lauren P ^a,d   Fielding, Christopher R ^a   Rygel, Michael C ^b   Frank, Tracy D ^a   Roberts, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DEPOSITION; ICE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL INFLUENCES; LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE; MULTIPLE TIMESCALES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; VERTICAL SECTION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL FAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW ENGLAND FOLD BELT; TAMWORTH BELT;

EID: 60349094010     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.013     Document Type: Article

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