Ancestral Murray River on the Lacepede Shelf, southern Australia: Late Quaternary migrations of a major river outlet and strandline development
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2009
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Hill, Peter
De Deckker, Patrick
Von der Borch, Christopher
Murray-Wallace, Colin V
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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The Murray River drains the 1.06 × 106 km2 Murray-Darling Basin and discharges into the sea at the Murray mouth in southeast South Australia. The outlet faces the 180 km-wide Lacepede Shelf and forms part of a wave-dominated beach barrier/lagoon complex,
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Keywords: coastal evolution; continental shelf; Last Glacial Maximum; paleoceanography; paleochannel; Quaternary; sea level change; strandline; Australasia; Australia; Murray River Continental shelf; Gambier limestone; Lacepede basin; Lacepede shelf; Murray canyons; Murray river; Quaternary; Sprigg canyon
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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
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