Long-range dust transport from eastern Australia: A proxy for Holocene aridity and ENSO-type climate variability

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 167-177

  Marx, Samuel K ^a   McGowan, Hamish A ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australia; climate variability; dust deposition; New Zealand; palaeoclimate; trace element

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DUST DEPOSITION; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOCLIMATE;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; WETLANDS;

DUST;

ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DUST; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PALEOCLIMATE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LAKE EYRE BASIN; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67349108369     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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