Sedimentary history and the interpretation of late quaternary dune records: Examples from the tirari desert, australia and the kalahari, south africa1

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Volumn 40, Issue ESPECIAL, 2008, Pages 295-308

  Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E ^a   Telfer, Matthew W ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interdunes; Kalahari desert; Linear dunes; Luminescence dating; Lunettes; Quaternary; Tirari desert

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860995918     PISSN: 07161182     EISSN: 07177356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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