Beach ridge plain evidence of a variable late-Holocene tropical cyclone climate, North Queensland, Australia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 707-716

  Forsyth, Anthony J ^a   Nott, Jonathan ^a   Bateman, Mark D ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach ridge; Climate variability; Holocene; Optically Stimulated Luminescence; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NATURAL HAZARD; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHINGLE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 78049264459     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.024     Document Type: Article

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