A pluvial episode identified in arid Australia during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue , 2012, Pages 167-171

  Cohen, T J ^a   Nanson, G C ^a   Jansen, J D ^b   Gliganic, L A ^a   May, J H ^a   Larsen, J R ^c,d   Goodwin, I D ^e   Browning, S ^e   Price, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lake Callabonna; Medieval Climatic Anomaly; Mega lake; OSL; Palaeoshoreline

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS; CLIMATIC ANOMALIES; EXTRATROPICS; INDIAN OCEAN; MEGA-LAKE; MULTI PROXIES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; OSL; PALAEOSHORELINE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; SEA LEVEL;

LAKES;

ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HUNTER-GATHERER; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MOBILITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SHORE (NONMARINE); SHORELINE;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE CALLABONNA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84868701111     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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