The role of climate and local regolith-landscape processes in determining the pedological characteristics of æolian dust deposits across south-eastern Australia

Quaternary International

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 95-106

  Cattle, Stephen R ^a   Greene, Richard S B ^b   McPherson, Andrew A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; ION EXCHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RAINFALL; REGOLITH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOPOSEQUENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70349858013     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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