Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2690-2702

  Macken, Amy C ^a   Jankowski, Nathan R ^b   Price, Gilbert J ^c   Bestland, Erick A ^a   Reed, Elizabeth H ^a,d   Prideaux, Gavin J ^a   Roberts, Richard G ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Department for Environment and Natural Resources ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cave sediments; Late Pleistocene; Naracoorte caves; Optically stimulated luminescence dating; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSITS; CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FAUNAL COMMUNITIES; FOSSIL TEETH; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NARACOORTE CAVES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ GRAINS; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CAVES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEPOSITION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHEMISTRY; INFILL; LUMINESCENCE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SILT; SPELEOTHEM; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VERTEBRATE; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

AUSTRALIA; NARACOORTE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80051899594     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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