TY - JOUR
T1 - Interpretation of rock varnish in australia
T2 - Case studies from the arid zone
AU - Dorn, Ronald
AU - Dragovich, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funded by US National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award 87-57014 and University of Sydney research grants. Thanks to D. Dorn and M. Nobbs for field assistance; D. Tanner and D. Dorn for laboratory help; M. Turner for the Antarctica sample; T. Cahill, T. Gill and the Air Quality Group at UC Davis for PIXE analyses; M. Tamers, J. Stipp of Beta Analytic and W. Wolfli and the Zurich accelerator group for AMS14C analyses. Thanks to Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory and National Parks Wildlife Service of New South Wales for permission to sample small quantities of varnish.
PY - 1990/5/1
Y1 - 1990/5/1
N2 - Rock varnish has a long history of study in Australia. Although Australian varnishes have biological, chemical and morphological similarities to varnishes in other continents, rock varnishes in arid Australia tend to be less stable than in other drylands. Still, with careful sampling, radiocarbon and cation-ratio dating of rock varnish has been used to constrain the age of Henbury Meteor Craters, Northern Territory, and rock engravings in South Australia and New South Wales, as well as to assess the geomorphic surface stability of Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, and the slopes of Pepuarta Bluff in the Olary Province of South Australia.
AB - Rock varnish has a long history of study in Australia. Although Australian varnishes have biological, chemical and morphological similarities to varnishes in other continents, rock varnishes in arid Australia tend to be less stable than in other drylands. Still, with careful sampling, radiocarbon and cation-ratio dating of rock varnish has been used to constrain the age of Henbury Meteor Craters, Northern Territory, and rock engravings in South Australia and New South Wales, as well as to assess the geomorphic surface stability of Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, and the slopes of Pepuarta Bluff in the Olary Province of South Australia.
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U2 - 10.1080/00049189008702997
DO - 10.1080/00049189008702997
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0025631012
SN - 0004-9182
VL - 21
SP - 18
EP - 32
JO - Australian Geographer
JF - Australian Geographer
IS - 1
ER -