Australian desert dune fields initiated with Pliocene - Pleistocene global climatic shift

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-54

  Fujioka, Toshiyuki ^a   Chappell, John ^a   Fifield, L Keith ^a   Rhodes, Edward J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; COSMOGENIC EXPOSURE; DESERT DUNES; DRILL CORE; DUNE FIELDS; GLOBAL COOLING; ICE AGE; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE SEDIMENTS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SIMPSON; STONY DESERTS;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; CORE DRILLING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; AMPLITUDE; ARIDITY; DESERTIFICATION; DUNE FIELD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SIMPSON DESERT;

EID: 67650351678     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25042A.1     Document Type: Article

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