Pollen, biomarker and stable isotope evidence of late Quaternary environmental change at Lake McKenzie, southeast Queensland

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 139-156

  Atahan, Pia ^a,b   Heijnis, Henk ^a   Dodson, John ^a   Grice, Kliti ^b   Le Métayer, Pierre ^b   Taffs, Kathryn ^c   Hembrow, Sarah ^c   Woltering, Martijn ^b   Zawadzki, Atun ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botryococcus; Fraser Island; Palaeoecology; Pollen; Quaternary; Southeast Queensland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922006792     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: 15730417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-014-9813-3     Document Type: Article

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