Palaeomagnetic Analysis Of Sediments In The Buchan Caves, Southeastern Australia, Provides A Pre-Late Pleistocene Date For Landscape And Climate Evolution

2007 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
R. J. Musgrave ◽  
J. A. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Climate Evolution

Fingerprint of the geographic and climate evolution of the Baltic–White Sea region in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene in groundwater stable isotopes (2H, 18O)

2019 ◽  
Vol 524 ◽  
pp. 76-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.V. Tokarev ◽  
G.S. Borodulina ◽  
D.A. Subetto ◽  
G.Y. Voronyuk ◽  
M.B. Zobkov
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
White Sea ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
The Baltic

The genesis of solution pipes: Evidence from the Middle–Late Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation calcarenite, southeastern Australia

Geomorphology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 90-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Lipar ◽  
John A. Webb ◽  
Susan Q. White ◽  
Ken G. Grimes
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Southeastern Australia

Late Pleistocene landscape response to climate change: eolian and alluvial fan deposition, Cape Liptrap, southeastern Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1552-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Gardner ◽  
John Webb ◽  
Aaron G. Davis ◽  
Elizabeth J. Cassel ◽  
Claudia Pezzia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Alluvial Fan ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Landscape Response

scholarly journals Dietary responses of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea) megafauna to climate and environmental change

Paleobiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa R. G. DeSantis ◽  
Judith H. Field ◽  
Stephen Wroe ◽  
John R. Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Population Biology ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Dental Microwear ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Climate And Environmental Change ◽  
Arid Conditions ◽  
Monitor Lizards

AbstractThroughout the late Quaternary, the Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea) vertebrate fauna was dominated by a diversity of large mammals, birds, and reptiles, commonly referred to as megafauna. Since ca. 450–400Ka, approximately 88 species disappeared in Sahul, including kangaroos exceeding 200kg in size, wombat-like animals the size of hippopotamuses, flightless birds, and giant monitor lizards that were likely venomous. Ongoing debates over the primary cause of these extinctions have typically favored climate change or human activities. Improving our understanding of the population biology of extinct megafauna as more refined paleoenvironmental data sets become available will assist in identifying their potential vulnerabilities. Here, we apply a multiproxy approach to analyze fossil teeth from deposits dated to the middle and late Pleistocene at Cuddie Springs in southeastern Australia, assessing relative aridity via oxygen isotopes as well as vegetation and megafaunal diets using both carbon isotopes and dental microwear texture analyses. We report that the Cuddie Springs middle Pleistocene fauna was largely dominated by browsers, including consumers of C4 shrubs, but that by late Pleistocene times the C4 dietary component was markedly reduced. Our results suggest dietary restriction in more arid conditions. These dietary shifts are consistent with other independently derived isotopic data from eggshells and wombat teeth that also suggest a reduction in C4 vegetation after ~45 Ka in southeastern Australia, coincident with increasing aridification through the middle to late Pleistocene. Understanding the ecology of extinct species is important in clarifying the primary drivers of faunal extinction in Sahul. The results presented here highlight the potential impacts of aridification on marsupial megafauna. The trend to increasingly arid conditions through the middle to late Pleistocene (as identified in other paleoenvironmental records and now also observed, in part, in the Cuddie Springs sequence) may have stressed the most vulnerable animals, perhaps accelerating the decline of late Pleistocene megafauna in Australia.

scholarly journals Late Pleistocene climate evolution in Southeastern Europe recorded by soil bacterial membrane lipids in Serbian loess

2016 ◽  
Vol 449 ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura T. Schreuder ◽  
Christiaan J. Beets ◽  
Maarten A. Prins ◽  
Christine Hatté ◽  
Francien Peterse
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Membrane Lipids ◽  
Bacterial Membrane ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Pleistocene Climate ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
Soil Bacterial

Ferruginous weathering under cool temperate climates during the Late Pleistocene in Southeastern Australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
R. W. Young ◽  
S. A. Short ◽  
D. M. Price ◽  
E. A. Bryant ◽  
G. C. Nanson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Cool Temperate ◽  
Temperate Climates
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