Late quaternary environments of the Carpentaria Basin, Australia

Torgersen, T.; Luly, Jon; Deckker, Patrick De; Jones, Miranda R.; Searle, David E.; Chivas, Allan R.; Ullman, William J.

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“…There is less evidence to reconstruct the vegetation of the Queensland Plateau at low-sealevel times, however long pollen records from Fraser Island Longmore and Heijnis 1999) indicate that although edaphic and hydrological conditions peculiar to sand mass sites influence vegetation responses to climate, tree-dominated vegetation contracted markedly at Last Glacial Maximum times, to be replaced by the shrub-dominated 'wallum' vegetation characteristic of older dune landscapes of the modern island. Eastwards from there, information is scarce, but the trend noted from Fraser Island and places to the north (Torgersen et al 1988;Moss and Kershaw 2000;Chivas et al 2001) suggests the prospect is remote that extensive forested habitat suitable for use by the grey-headed flying fox existed on the exposed shelf.…”

Section: The Continental Shelfmentioning

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Section: The Continental Shelfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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“…These include cores from the Gulf of Carpentaria (McCulloch et al, 1989;Reeves et al, 2007;Torgersen et al, 1988), Lynch's Crater (Kershaw, 1986;, Lake Euramo (Haberle, 2005), the marine core ODP820 (Moss andKershaw, 2000, 2007) and fluvial studies from the Northern Territories (Nott andPrice, 1994, 1999;Nott et al, 1996). A recent synthesis of palaeoenvironmental studies from tropical Australasia indicate warmer conditions during the deglacial period as the Sunda shelf flooded (Reeves et al, 2013).…”

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“…yr BP (Chappell, 1993) South Alligator River Northern Territory 7,900 cal. yr BP (Grindrod, 1988;Woodroffe et al, 1986 ;Woodroffe et al, 1985;Woodroffe et al, 1987) Mine Valley Billabong MV2, Jabiluka Billabong M8 Magela Plains, Northern Territory 6,000 yrs BP (Clark and Guppy, 1988) Princess Charlotte Bay Cape York Peninsula, Queensland ~1,900 yrs BP (Grindrod, 1985) Marralda Wetlands South Wellesley Islands, Queensland 2,400 cal BP (Moss et al, 2015) Missionary Bay Hinchinbrook Island, North East Queensland 10,000 cal BP (Grindrod and Rhodes, 1984) Lake Carpentaria GC Queensland 40,000 cal BP (Torgersen et al, 1985;Torgersen et al, 1988) Lake Carpentaria MD32 Queensland 130,000 yrs BP (Chivas et al, 2001;Couapel et al, 2007;Reeves et al, 2008) …”

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“…Early work identified 'Lake Carpentaria' (Torgersen et al, 1983;Torgersen et al, 1985;Torgersen et al, 1988), and examined the lacustrine waters, sediments, timing and height of sea level in breaching the Arafura and Torres Strait Sills (Chivas et al, 1993;Chivas et al, 1985;Chivas et al, 1986aChivas et al, , 1986bDe Deckker et al, 1988;De Deckker et al, 1991;McCulloch et al, 1989;Norman and De Deckker, 1990). The late Pleistocene Lake Carpentaria was surrounded by herbaceous wetlands and savanna (McCulloch et al, 1989;Torgersen et al, 1988). Ostracod records show the lake was a permanent feature between 40,000-10,800 cal.…”

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Palaeoecology of the South Wellesley Archipelago. A history of human occupation and environmental change

Mackenzie¹

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A wealth of palaeoecological studies from the Australasian region identify periods of significant environmental change during the Holocene. However, relatively few studies have focused on the coastal lowlands of tropical northern Australia, limiting our ability to accurately reconstruct this vast bioregion's history. This study addresses the gap in spatially distributed paleoenvironmental research in northern Australia by producing the first reconstructions from the South Wellesley This research examined seven sediment profiles using micro X-ray fluorescence geochemical data and particle size analysis.

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“…One of the features of the Arafura plain before the last sea-level flood was Lake Carpentaria -a giant (~30,000 km 2 : Torgersen et al 1988) freshwater lake in the centre of what is now the Gulf of Carpentaria. As the sea waters rose, this lake disappeared.…”

Section: The Past: An Arafura Inheritancementioning

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The Nature of Northern Australia: its natural values, ecological processes and future prospects

Woinarski¹,

Mackey²,

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Late quaternary environments of the Carpentaria Basin, Australia

Cited by 98 publications

References 14 publications

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Palaeoecology of the South Wellesley Archipelago. A history of human occupation and environmental change

The Nature of Northern Australia: its natural values, ecological processes and future prospects

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