Age and origin of alluvial sediments within and flanking the Mt Lofty Ranges, southern South Australia: A Late Quaternary archive of climate and environmental change

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-192

  Bourman, R P ^a   Prescott, J R ^b   Banerjee, D ^c   Alley, N F ^b   Buckman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Luminescence dating, megafauna; Mt Lofty Ranges; Pooraka Formation; Quaternary; South Australia; Terrestrial sediments

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BEDROCK; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYPSITHERMAL; INCISED VALLEY; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT LOFTY RANGES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

DIPROTODON; METATHERIA;

EID: 77950923692     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120090903416260     Document Type: Article

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