Holocene lake salinity changes in the Wimmera, southeastern Australia, provide evidence for millennial-scale climate variability

Quaternary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-76

  Kemp, Justine ^a   Radke, Lynda C ^b   Olley, Jon ^c   Juggins, Steve ^d   De Deckker, Patrick ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Murray Darling Basin; Ostracods; Palaeohydrology; Salt lakes; Southern Hemisphere Westerlies; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; OSTRACODS; PALAEOHYDROLOGY; SALT LAKES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FECAL PELLET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HOLOCENE; OSTRACOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOSALINITY; SALINE LAKE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WESTERLY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WIMMERA;

ARTEMIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CAMPYLODISCUS CLYPEUS; CHARALES; CLADOCERA; COXIELLA; DAPHNIOPSIS; ELPHIDIUM; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; OSTRACODA; PARARTEMIA ZIETZIANA;

EID: 84855343147     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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