Palaeoenvironmental change recorded in the palaeodunefields of the western Murray Basin, South Australia - New data from single grain OSL-dating

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 723-736

  Lomax, J ^a,b   Hilgers, A ^b   Radtke, U ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Murray Basin; Palaeodunes; Quaternary; SE Australia; Semi arid environments; Single grain luminescence dating

Indexed keywords

MURRAY BASIN; PALAEODUNES; QUATERNARY; SE-AUSTRALIA; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SINGLE GRAIN LUMINESCENCE DATING;

FORESTRY; QUARTZ; SAND; VEGETATION;

LUMINESCENCE;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DUNE FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NEW RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; QUARTZ; SEMIARID REGION;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY BASIN;

EID: 79952037483     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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