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Title

Australian Quaternary studies : a tribute to Jim Bowler / guest editors, John Magee and Patrick De Deckker.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Tarrytown, NY : Pergamon, Elsevier, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Bowler, Jim.
• De Deckker, P. (Patrick)
• Magee, John

Description

292 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Quaternary international, 1040-6182 ; v. 83-85

Uniform Title

Quaternary international ; v. 83-85.

Subject

• Australia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Australia > Congresses
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Quaternary > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a meeting held in Canberra in February, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• J. M. Bowler's contribution to Australian Quaternary studies : a tribute to Jim Bowler / J. Magee and P. De Deckker -- Australian Quaternary studies : a tribute to Jim Bowler / J. Magee and P. De Deckker -- Shore-line reconstruction around Austrialia during the Last Glacial Maximum and late Glacial stage / Y. Yokoyama, A. Purcell, K. Lambeck and P. Johnston -- Sea-level and environmental changes since the last interglacial in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia : an overview / A. R. Chivas, A. García, S. van der Kaars, M. J. J. Couapel, S. Holt, J. M. Reeves, D. J. Wheeler, A. D. Switzer, C. V. Murray-Wallace, D. Banerjee, D. M. Price, S. X. Wang, G. Pearson, N. T. Edgar, L. Beaufort, P. De Deckker, E. Lawson and C. B. Cecil --
• Foraminifera as Holocene environmental indicators in the South Alligator river, Northern Australia / P. Wang and J. Chappell -- Variations of the northwest Australian summer monsoon over the last 300,000 years : the paleohydrological record of the Gregory(Mulan) Lakes system / J. M. Bowler, K.-H. Wyrwoll and Y. Lu -- Lake Lewis basin, central Austrlia : enviromental evolution and OSL chronology / P. English, N.A. Spooner, J. Chappell, D.G Questiaux and N. G. Hill --
• Enviromental history of northwest Australia based on phytolith analysis at Carpenter's Gap 1 / L.A. Wallis -- Initiation of the Australian summer monsoon 14,000 years ago / K.-H. Wyrwoll and G. H. Miller -- The enigma of late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia / M. William, J. R. Prescott, J. Chappell, D. Adamson, B. Cock, K. Walker and P. Gell -- Preliminary results from tree increment and playa sediment cores from the Paroo, north-western New South Wales, Australia / S. Pearson, M. Searson and L. Gayler --
• On the equivocal fate of Late Pleistocene Callitris Vent. (Cupressaceae) woodlands in arid South Australia / J. G. Luly -- Late Quaternary erosion in southeastern Australia : a field example using cosmogenic nuclides / A. M. Heimsath, J. Chappell, W. e. Dietrich, K. Nishiizumi and R. C. Finkel -- TL chronology and stratigraphy of riverine source bordering sand dunes near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia / K. J. Page, A. J. Dare-Edwards, J. W. Owens, P. S. Franzier, J. Kellett and D. M. Price --
• Sediment dates with implications for the age of the conversion from palaeochannel to modern fluvial activity on the Murray River and tributaries / R. Ogden, N. Spooner, M. Reid and J. Head -- An early to middle Pleistocene palynological record from the volcanic crater of Pejark Marsh, Western Plain of Victoria, southeastern Australia / B. E. Wagstaff, A. P. Kershaw, P. B. Kershaw, P. B. O' Sullivan, K. J. Harle and J. Edwards --
• A 40.000 year vegetation history and climatic interpertations of Burraga Swamp, Barrington Tops, New South Wales / S. Sweller and H. A. Martin -- Diatoms as indicators of sedimentary processes in Burrinjuck reservoir, New South Wales, Australia / J. Tibby -- Inter-tidal fixed indicatores of former Holocene sea levels in Australia : a summary of sites and a review of methods and models / R. G. V. Baker, R. J. Haworth and P. G. Flood --
• Last glacial sea-level change deduced from uplifted coral terraces of Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Y. Yokoyama, T. M. Esat and K. Lambeck -- Climate changes in northern China since the late Pleistocene and its response to global change / W. Zhou, M. J. Head and L. Deng.

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