'of droughts and flooding rains': An alluvial loess record from central South Australia spanning the last glacial cycle

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 346, Issue , 2010, Pages 185-223

  Haberlah, David ^a,b   Glasby, Peter ^a   Williams, Martin A J ^a   Hill, Steven M ^a,b   Williams, Frances ^a   Rhodes, Edward J ^c   Gostin, Victor ^a   O'Flaherty, Anthony ^d   Jacobsen, Geraldine E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d School of Land Information Management Systems   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOESS; PEDOGENESIS; TRANSITION ZONE;

AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80053366991     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP346.11     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Aitken M J. An Introduction to Optical Dating 1998, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2. Blong R J, Gillespie R. Fluvially transported charcoal gives erroneous 14C ages for recent deposits. Nature 1978, 271:739-741.
3. Bourke M C, Child A, Stokes S. Optical age estimates for hyper-arid fluvial deposits at Homeb, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2003, 22:1099-1103.
4. Bowler J M, Davies J L, Williams M A J. Quaternary climate and tectonics in the evolution of the Riverine Plain, southeastern Australia. Landform Evolution in Australasia 1978, 70-112. Canberra, Australian National University Press.
5. Brunotte E, Maurer B, Fischer P, Lomax J, Sander H. A sequence of fluvial and aeolian deposits (desert loess) and palaeosoils covering the last 60 ka in the Opuwo basin, Kaokoland/Kunene region, Namibia) based on luminescence dating. Quaternary International 2009, 196:71-85.
6. Callen R A, Reid P W. Geology of the Flinders Ranges National Park 1994, South Australian Geological Survey, Special Map 1:75 000.
7. Callen R A, Wasson R J, Gillespie R. Reliability of radiocarbon dating of pedogenic carbonate in the Australian arid zone. Sedimentary Geology 1983, 35:1-14.
8. Cock B J, Williams M A J, Adamson D A. Pleistocene Lake Brachina: a preliminary stratigraphy and chronology of lacustrine sediments from the central Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 1999, 46:61-69.
9. Crocker R L. Post-Miocene climatic and geologic history and its significance in relation to the genesis of the major soil types of South Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 1946, 193:5-65.
10. Dart R C, Barovich K M, Chittleborough D J, Hill S M. Calcium in regolith carbonates of central and southern Australia: its source and implications for the global carbon cycle. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 249:322-334.
11. Duller G A T. Luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments: recent advances. Journal of Quaternary Science 2004, 19:183-192.
12. Duller G A T, Botter-Jensen L, Murray A S, Truscott A J. Single grain laser luminescence (SGLL) measurements using a novel automated reader. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1999, 155:506-514.
13. Eitel B, Blümel W D, Hüser K, Mauz B. Dust and loessic alluvial deposits in northwestern Namibia (Damaraland, Kaokoveld): sedimentology and palaeoclimatic evidence based on luminescence data. Quaternary International 2001, 76:57-65.
14. Eitel B, Kadereit A, Blümel W D, Hüser K, Kromer B. The Amspoort Silts, northern Namib Desert (Namibia): formation, age and palaeoclimatic evidence of river-end deposits. Geomorphology 2005, 64:299-314.
15. One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica. Nature 2006, 444:195-198. EPICA Community Members.
16. Fairbanks R G, Mortlock R A, et al. Radiocarbon calibration curve spanning 0 to 50 000 years BP based on paired 230Th/234U/238U and 14C dates on pristine corals. Quaternary Science Reviews 2005, 24:1781-1796.
17. Farrera I, Harrison S P, et al. Tropical climates of the last glacial maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimatic data. I. Vegetation, lake levels and geochemistry. Climate Dynamics 1999, 15:823-856.
18. Ferguson C W, Huber B, Suess H E. Determination of the age of Swiss lake dwellings as an example of dendrochronologically-calibrated radiocarbon dating. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Teil A 1966, 21:1173-1177.
19. Fontes J-C, Gasse F. On the ages of humid Holocene and late Pleistocene phases in north Africa - remarks on 'Late Quaternary climatic reconstruction for the Maghreb (North Africa)' by P. Rognon. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1989, 70:393-398.
20. Galbraith R F. The radial plot: graphical assessment of spread in ages. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 1990, 17:207-214.
21. Galbraith R F. Statistics for Fission Track Analysis 2005, Boca Raton, FL, Chapman & Hall-CRC.
22. Galbraith R F, Green P F. Estimating the component ages in a finite mixture. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 1990, 17:197-206.
23. Galbraith R F, Roberts R G, Laslett G M, Yoshida H, Olley J M. Optical dating and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: part 1, experimental design and statistical models. Archaeometry 1999, 41:339-364.
24. Galloway R W. Late Quaternary climates in Australia. Journal of Geology 1965, 73:603-618.
25. Gentilli J, Jeans D N. Climate. Australia - A Geography. The Natural Environment 1986, 14-48. Sydney, Sydney University Press.
26. Gingele F X, De Deckker P. Late Quaternary fluctuations of palaeoproductivity in the Murray Canyons area, south Australian continental margin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2005, 220:361-373.
27. Glasby P, Williams M A J, McKirdy D, Symonds R, Chivas A R. Late Pleistocene environments in the Flinders Ranges, Australia: preliminary evidence from microfossils and stable isotopes. Quaternary Australasia 2007, 24:19-28.
28. Goossens D. The effect of surface curvature on the deposition of loess: a physical model. Catena 1988, 15:179-194.
29. Goudie A S. Climate, weathering, crust formation, dunes and fluvial features of the central Namib Desert, near Gobabeb, South West Africa. Madoqua II 1972, 1:15-31.
30. Haberlah D, Fitzpatrick R W, Shand P. Depositional models of late Pleistocene fine-grained valley-fill formations in the Flinders Ranges, SA. Regolith 2006 - Consolidation and Dispersion of Ideas 2006, 122-126. Western Australia, Perth, Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration.
31. Haberlah D. A call for Australian loess. Area 2007, 39:224-229.
32. Haberlah D. Response to Smalley's discussion of 'A call for Australian loess. Area 2008, 40:135-136.
33. Haberlah D, McTainsh G H. Quantifying particle aggregation in sediments. Sedimentology 2011, in press.
34. Haberlah D, Williams M A J, Hill S M, Halverson G, Glasby P. A terminal last glacial maximum (LGM) loess-derived palaeoflood record from South Australia?. Quaternary International 2007, 167-168:150.
35. Haberlah D, Williams M A J, et al. Loess and floods: High-resolution multi-proxy data of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) slackwater deposition in the Flinders Ranges, semi-arid South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010, 29:2673-2693.
36. Heine K, Heine J T. A paleohydrologic reinterpretation of the Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, central Namib Desert (Namibia) and paleoclimatic implications. Catena 2002, 48:107-130.
37. Hesse P P, McTainsh G H. Australian dust deposits: modern processes and the Quaternary record. Quaternary Science Reviews 2003, 22:2007-2035.
38. Hoffman D L, Beck J W, Richards D A, Smart P L, Mattey D P, Paterson B A, Hawkesworth C J. Atmospheric radiocarbon variation between 44 and 28 ka based on U-series dated speleothem. Geophysical Research Abstracts 2008, 10. SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-10064.
39. Hua Q, Jacobsen G E, Zoppi U, Lawson E M, Williams A A, Smith A M, McGann M J. Progress in radiocarbon target preparation at the ANTARES AMS Centre. Radiocarbon 2001, 43:275-282.
40. Hughen K, Southon J, Lehman S, Bertrand C, Turnbull J. Marine-derived 14C calibration and activity record for the past 50 000 years updated from the Cariaco Basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 2006, 25:3216-3227.
41. Huntley D J, Godfrey-Smith D I, Thewalt M L W. Optical dating of sediments. Nature 1985, 313:105-107.
42. Huntley D J, Hutton J T, Prescott J R. The stranded beach-dune sequence of south-east Australia: a test of thermoluminescence dating, 0-800 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 1993, 12:1-20.
43. Issar A S, Bruins H J. Special climatological conditions in the deserts of Sinai and the Negev during the latest Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1983, 43:63-72.
44. Issar A S, Eckstein Y. The lacustrine beds of Wadi Feiran, Sinai: their origin and significance. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 1969, 18:29-32.
45. Jacobs Z, Duller G A T, Wintle A G. Interpretation of single grain De distributions and calculation of De. Radiation Measurements 2006, 41:264-277.
46. Jennings J N. A revised map of the desert dunes of Australia. Australian Geographer 1968, 10:408-409.
47. Kemp J, Spooner N A. Evidence for regionally wet conditions before the LGM in southeast Australia: OSL ages from a large palaeochannel in the Lachlan Valley. Journal of Quaternary Science 2007, 22:423-427.
48. Lancaster N. How dry was dry? - Late Pleistocene palaeoclimates in the Namib Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 2002, 21:769-782.
49. Leopold M, Völkel J, Heine K. A ground penetrating radar survey of late Holocene fluvial sediments in northwest Namibian river valleys: characterisation and comparison. Journal of the Geological Society, London 2006, 163:923-936.
50. Li B, Li S, Wintle A G. Overcoming environmental dose rate changes in luminescence dating of waterlain deposits. Geochronometria 2008, 30:33-40.
51. Mackellar D. The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar 1971, Adelaide, Rigby.
52. Mix A C, Bard E, Schneider R. Environmental processes of the ice age: land, oceans, glaciers (EPILOG). Quaternary Science Reviews 2001, 20:627-657.
53. Murray A S, Wintle A G. Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol. Radiation Measurements 2000, 32:57-73.
54. Nanson G C, Price D M, et al. Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary in eastern central Australia. Geomorphology 2008, 101:109-129.
55. Newnham R M, Lowe D J, Giles T, Alloway B V. Vegetation and climate of Auckland, New Zealand, since ca. 32 000 cal. yr ago: support for an extended LGM. Journal of Quaternary Science 2007, 22:517-534.
56. Olley J M, Reed M. Radial Plot 1.3 2003, Canberra, CSIRO Land & Water.
57. Olley J M, Caitcheon G, Murray A S. The distribution of apparent dose as determined by optically stimulated luminescence in small aliquots of fluvial quartz: implications for dating young sediments. Quaternary Geochronology 1998, 17:1033-1040.
58. Petherick L M, McGowan H A, Moss P. Climate variability during the last glacial maximum in eastern Australia: evidence of two stadials?. Journal of Quaternary Science 2008a, 23:787-802.
59. Petherick L M, McGowan H A, Moss P T, Kamber B S. Late Quaternary aridity and dust transport pathways in eastern Australia. Quaternary Australasia 2008b, 25:2-11.
60. Petherick L M, McGowan H A, Kamber B S. Reconstructing transport pathways for late Quaternary dust from eastern Australia using the composition of trace elements of long traveled dusts. Geomorphology 2009, 105:67-79.
61. Preiss W V. The Adelaide geosyncline - late Proterozoic stratigraphy, sedimentation, palaeontology and tectonics. Geological Survey of South Australia, Bulletin 1987, 53:438.
62. Preiss W V. Parachilna, South Australia 1999, Adelaide, Primary Industries and Resources SA, 1:250 000 Geological Series - Explanatory Notes.
63. Prescott J R, Hutton J T. Cosmic ray contributions to dose rates for luminescence and ESR dating: large depths and long-term time variations. Radiation Measurements 1994, 23:497-500.
64. Quigley M C, Sandiford M, Cupper M L. Distinguishing tectonic from climatic controls on range-front sedimentation. Basin Research 2007, 19:491-505.
65. Reimer P J, Baillie M G L, et al. Intcal04 atmospheric radiocarbon age calibration, 26-0 cal kyr bP. Radiocarbon 2004, 46:1029-1058.
66. Revel-rolland M, De Deckker P, et al. Eastern Australia: a possible source of dust in East Antarctica interglacial ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 249:1-13.
67. Rögner K, Knabe K, Roscher B, Smykatz-kloss W, Zöller L. Alluvial loess in the Central Sinai: occurrence, origin, and palaeoclimatological consideration. Paleoecology of Quaternary Drylands 2004, 102:79-99. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences.
68. Schaefer J M, Denton G H, et al. Near-synchronous interhemispheric termination of the last glacial maximum in mid-latitudes. Science 2006, 312:1510-1513.
69. Schwerdtfeger P, Curran E, Davies M, Twidale C R, Tyler M J. Climate of the Flinders Ranges. Natural History of the Flinders Ranges 1996, 7:63-75. Royal Society of South Australia Occasional Publications.
70. Shulmeister J, Goodwin I, et al. The southern hemisphere westerlies in the Australasian sector over the last glacial cycle: a synthesis. Quaternary International 2004, 118-119:23-53.
71. Smith R M H, Mason T R, Ward J D. Flash-flood sediments and ichnofacies of the late Pleistocene Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 1993, 85:579-599.
72. Sprigg R C. Stranded and submerged sea-beach systems of southeast South Australia and the aeolian desert cycle. Sedimentary Geology 1979, 22:53-96.
73. Srivastava P, Brook G A, Marais E, Morthekai P, Singhvi A K. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 2006, 65:478-491.
74. Talbot M R, Holm K, Williams M A J, Rosen M R. Sedimentation in low gradient desert margin systems: a comparison of the late Triassic of north-west Somerset (England) and the late Quaternary of east-central Australia. Paleoclimate and Basin Evolution of Playa Systems 1994, 289:97-117. Geological Society of America, Special Papers.
75. Tuniz C, Bird J R, Herzog G F, Fink D. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Ultrasensitive Analysis for Global Science 1998, 1st edn, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press.
76. Vogel J C. The age of the Kuiseb River silt terrace at Homeb. Palaeoecology of Africa 1982, 15:201-209.
77. Walker M. Quaternary Dating Methods: An Introduction 2005, Chichester, Wiley.
78. Ward J D. The Cenozoic Succession in the Kuiseb Valley, Central Namib Desert 1987, 9. Geological Survey of South West Africa/Namibia Memoir.
79. Weninger B, Jöris O. A 14C age calibration curve for the last 60 ka: the Greenland-Hulu U/Th timescale and its impact on understanding the middle to upper Paleolithic transition in western Eurasia. Journal of Human Evolution 2008, 55:772-781.
80. Weninger B, Jöris O, Danzeglocke U. CalPal-2007. Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration & Palaeoclimate Research Package 2008, World Wide Web Address: http://www.calpal.de/.
81. Williams D L G. Late Pleistocene vertebrates and palaeo-environments of the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges 1982, Adelaide, Flinders University of South Australia, PhD thesis.
82. Williams G E. Late Quaternary piedmont sedimentation, soil formation and paleoclimates in arid South Australia. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Neue Folge 1973, 17:102-125.
83. Williams G E, Polach H A. Radiocarbon dating of arid-zone calcareous paleosols. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1971, 82:3069-3086.
84. Williams M A J, Nitschke N. Influence of wind-blown dust on landscape evolution in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. South Australian Geographical Journal 2005, 104:25-36.
85. Williams M A J, De Deckker P, Adamson D A, Talbot M R, Williams M A J, De Deckker P, Kershaw A P. Episodic fluviatile, lacustrine and aeolian sedimentation in a late Quaternary desert margin system, central western New South Wales. The Cainozoic in Australia: A Re-appraisal of the Evidence 1991, 18:258-287. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication.
86. Williams M A J, Prescott J R, Chappell J, Adamson D, Cock B, Walker K, Gell P. The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Quaternary International 2001, 83-85:129-144.
87. Williams M A J, Nitschke N, Chor C. Complex geomorphic response to late Pleistocene climatic changes in the arid Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Géomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement 2006, 4:249-258.
88. Wintle A G, Murray A S. A review of quartz optically stimulated luminescence characteristics and their relevance in single-aliquot regeneration dating protocols. Radiation Measurements 2006, 41:369-391.
89. Zielhofer C, Faust D. Mid- and late Holocene fluvial chronology of Tunisia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2008, 27:580-588.