Environmental character and history of the Lake Eyre Basin, one seventh of the Australian continent

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-66

  Habeck Fardy, Anna ^a   Nanson, Gerald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geology; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Lake Eyre Basin; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; TERTIARY;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE EYRE BASIN; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84897659273     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.02.003     Document Type: Review

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