Continuous 150 k.y. monsoon record from Lake Eyre, Australia: Insolation-forcing implications and unexpected Holocene failure

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 885-888

  Magee, John W ^a   Miller, Gifford H ^b   Spooner, Nigel A ^a   Questiaux, Daniele ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Lake sediment; Milankovitch; Paleoclimate; Paleomonsoon; Playa

Indexed keywords

MARINE ISOTOPES; MONSOON;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CATCHMENTS; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

INSOLATION; MONSOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; LAKE EYRE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 7544233108     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20672.1     Document Type: Article

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