ESR and U-series analyses of faunal material from Cuddie Springs, NSW, Australia: implications for the timing of the extinction of the Australian megafauna

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 596-610

  Grün, Rainer ^a   Eggins, Stephen ^a   Aubert, Maxime ^a   Spooner, Nigel ^a,b   Pike, Alistair W G ^c   Müller, Wolfgang ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN MEGAFAUNA; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL PRESSURE; LASER-ABLATION-ICP-MS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MEGAFAUNA; NEW RESULTS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TAPHONOMY; U-SERIES; U-SERIES ISOTOPES;

ANIMALS; CHARCOAL; DENTISTRY; ELECTROSLAG REMELTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BONE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; THORIUM; URANIUM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 76449105233     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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