GPR surveys of vegetated linear dune stratigraphy in central Australia: Evidence for linear dune extension with vertical and lateral accretion

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 432, Issue , 2007, Pages 19-33

  Bristow, C S ^a   Jones, B G ^b   Nanson, G C ^b   Hollands, C ^b   Coleman, M ^b   Price, D M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clay illuviation; Desert dune stratigraphy; Linear dune migration

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVEYS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

AUSTRALIA; DESERT DUNES; HOLOCENES; LATERAL ACCRETIONS; LINEAR DUNE MIGRATION; PALAEOSOL; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SIMPSON;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ACCRETION; DESERT; DUNE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PALEOSOL; SIGNAL; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

AUSTRALIA; NORTH CAROLINA; SIMPSON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74649085623     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2432(02)     Document Type: Article

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