Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes

The nature of the Australian climate at about the time of rapid megafaunal extinctions and humans arriving in Australia is poorly understood and is an important element in the contentious debate as to whether humans or climate caused the extinctions. Here we present a new paleoshoreline chronology t...

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Published in:Geology
Main Authors: Cohen, Tim J, Nanson, Gerald, Jansen, John D., Jones, Brian G., Jacobs, Zenobia, Treble, Pauline, Price, David M, May, Jan-Hendrik, Smith, Andrew M, Ayliffe, Linda, Hellstrom, John Charles
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Geological Society of America Inc
Subjects:
Keywords: Aridification
Australia
Climate shifts
Glacial cycles
Interconnected systems
Megafauna
Paleoclimates
Southern latitudes
Southern Ocean
Water filling
Coalescence
Lakes
aridification
extinction
geochronology
lake
paleoclimate
Quaternary
Au
Blanche
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/65937
https://doi.org/10.1130/G31518.1
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