Glacial and Holocene terrestrial temperature variability in subtropical east Australia as inferred from branched GDGT distributions in a sediment core from Lake McKenzie

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-145

  Woltering, Martijn ^a,d   Atahan, Pia ^b   Grice, Kliti ^a   Heijnis, Henk ^b   Taffs, Kathryn ^c   Dodson, John ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Branched GDGT; Fraser Island; Holocene; Lake; Last Glacial Maximum; Palaeolimnology; Subtropical; Temperature proxy; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLYCEROL; SEDIMENTS; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIA; BRANCHED GDGT; FRASER ISLAND; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALAEOLIMNOLOGY; SUBTROPICAL; TEMPERATURE PROXY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

LAKES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA; EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; FRASER ISLAND; LAKE MCKENZIE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; SOUTH ISLAND; TASMAN;

EID: 84904051404     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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