Anthropogenic acceleration of sediment accretion in lowland floodplain wetlands, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Geomorphology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 122-126

  Gell, Peter ^a   Fluin, Jennie ^b   Tibby, John ^b   Hancock, Gary ^c   Harrison, Jennifer ^d   Zawadzki, Atun ^d   Haynes, Deborah ^b   Khanum, Syeda ^b   Little, Fiona ^b   Walsh, Brendan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lead dating; Salinisation; Sedimentation; Turbidity; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SALINITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 67349273616     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.020     Document Type: Article

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