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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the Australian drylands

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Authors

Fitzsimmons, Kathryn

Cohen, Tim J

Hesse, Paul

Jansen, John D.

Nanson, Gerald

May, Jan-Hendrik

Barrows, Timothy T.

Haberlah, David

Hilgers, A

Smith, Tegan

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

In this paper we synthesise existing palaeoenvironmental data from the arid and semi-arid interior of the Australian continent for the period 40-0ka. Moisture is the predominant variable controlling environmental change in the arid zone. Landscapes in thi

Keywords

Keywords: Aridity; Australia; Desert dunes; Ice core; Palaeohydrology; Playas; Arid regions; Atmospheric thermodynamics; Stream flow; Lakes; climatic region; Holocene; humid environment; Last Glacial Maximum; moisture content; paleoenvironment; paleohydrology; prec Aridity; Australasian integration of ice core, marine and terrestrial records (OZ-INTIMATE) project; Australia; Desert dunes; Palaeohydrology; Playas

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73431

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Quaternary Science Reviews

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.007

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2037-12-31

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