Chronology and stratigraphy of the Wet Cave vertebrate fossil deposit, Naracoorte, and relationship to paleoclimatic conditions of the Last Glacial Cycle in south-eastern Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-281

  Macken, A C ^a   McDowell, M C ^a   Bartholomeusz, D N ^a   Reed, E H ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cave sediments; Last Glacial Cycle; Naracoorte Caves; paleoclimate; radiocarbon dating; stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSIT; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SMALL MAMMAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; NARACOORTE CAVES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84877264554     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2013.758657     Document Type: Article

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