Dating recent floodplain sediments in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system, eastern Australia using single-grain quartz OSL

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-21

  Sim, Anna K ^a   Thomsen, Kristina J ^b   Murray, Andrew S ^c   Jacobsen, Geraldine ^d   Drysdale, Russell ^e   Erskine, Wayne ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHRONOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

AUSTRALIA; HAWKESBURY-NEPEAN BASIN; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84890639354     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12018     Document Type: Article

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