Quaternary history of the Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia : an archive of environmental and global sea-level changes / Colin V. Murray-Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray-Wallace, Colin V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Australia--Coorong, The (S.A.).

Geology.

Australia.

Geomorphology--Australia--Coorong, The (S.A.).

Geomorphology.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Coorong, The (S.A.).

Quaternary Geologic Period.

South Australia--The Coorong.

Physical Description:

xix, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

"This book provides an up-to-date overview of the Quaternary geological and geomorphological evolution of the Coorong Coastal Plain region and its significance in a global context for understanding long-term records of Quaternary sea-level changes. The Coorong Coastal Plain in southern Australia is a natural laboratory for examining the response of coastal barrier landscapes to relative sea-level changes. The region provides direct evidence of coastal sedimentation during successive interglacials over the past 1 million years, as well as more recent volcanism. The region has received international focus and attracted scientists from around the World, with interests in long-term coastal evolution, sea-level changes, Quaternary dating methods and geochronology, soil development, temperate carbonate sedimentation, karst geomorphology and geologically recent volcanism"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

The Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia : an introduction

The Pleistocene barrier sequence of the Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia

Holocene coastal sedimentary environments of the Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia

Pleistocene and Holocene volcanic activity and neotectonism

Soils, palaeosols, calcrete and karst

Geochronological framework for the age of the coastal barrier successions of the of the Coorong Coastal Plain

Quaternary sea-level changes and coastal evolution of the Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Murray-Wallace, Colin V. Quaternary history of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia.

ISBN:

3319893416

9783319893419

OCLC:

1028617513

Publisher Number:

10.1007/978-3-319-89342-6