The stranded beach-dune sequence of south-east South Australia: A test of thermoluminescence dating, 0–800 ka

Huntley, D. J.; Hutton, J.T.; Prescott, J.R.

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“…The largest fluvial system in Australia, the Murray-Darling, can be shown to have existed since at least the Eocene and for much of its history fed into a subsiding depocentre, in which several hundreds of metres of fluvial, lacustrine and marine sediments accumulated (e.g., Brown and Radke, 1989;Stevenson and Brown, 1989). However, as in other parts of the world, uplift in the Late Cenozoic, estimated to be 60-110m since the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene (e.g., Huntley et al, 1993Huntley et al, , 1994Murray-Wallace et al, 1996) at a rate of between ~0.07 and ~0.13 mm a -1 , has led to incision into the earlier deposits and the formation of both fluvial and marine terraces. The uplift chronology is constrained by the dating of Quaternary basalt of the Mount Gambier / Mount Schank volcanic field (cf Sheard, 1990), which caps Middle Pleistocene marine terrace deposits along the Southern Ocean coastline of eastern South Australia, ~300 km SSE of the mouth of the Murray.…”

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Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

2008

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R. (2007) 'Climatically controlled river terrace staircases : a worldwide quaternary phenomenon. ', Geomorphology.,. 285-315 . Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph. 2006.12.032 Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

2008

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“…Consequently, detailed chronostratigraphic study can potentially reveal changes in the environmental conditions during the Quaternary (Huntley et al, 1993(Huntley et al, , 1994Rose et al, 1999;Huntley and Prescott, 2001;Preusser et al, 2002;Munyikwa, 2005;Tripaldi and Forman, 2007;Amorosi et al, 2009;Fitzsimmons et al, 2009;Roskin et al, 2011a;Brooke et al, 2014;Bristow, 2015a, 2015b). Coastal stratigraphic studies have been conducted across the Mediterranean basin, in Spain (Fornós et al, 2009;Mauz et al, 2012), Sardinia Thiel et al, 2010), Tunisia (Mauz et al, 2009(Mauz et al, , 2012Elmejdoub et al, 2011), Cyprus (Tsakalos, 2016) and Egypt (El-Asmar, 1994;El-Asmar and Wood, 2000 on the correlation between dune formation and late Quaternary sea level oscillation, while less attention has been given to the coastal geomorphic response to climate, aeolian and alluvial processes.…”

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New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: A test case from central Israel

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Roskin

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The stratigraphic architecture of coastal plains is determined by the interactions between local (e.g. fluvial processes and topography), regional (e.g. climate) and global (e.g. sea level) forcing factors, primarily during the Late Quaternary Period. Detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses of boreholes, cored between coastal ridges in the lowlands, coupled with optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and integrated with existing onshore and offshore databases, has enabled a 4-D reconstruction of the evolution of the coast of Israel during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. This model revealed that Nilotic-sourced littoral sand, intermittently transported inland by wind, has either been lithified into aeolianite or pedogenized into orange-brown palaeosol from about 100 ka to 8 ka. Dark silty clay wetlands were deposited between the aeolian coastal ridges adjacent to streams which cut the Israeli coastal plain and flow westward, from the Last Glacial Maximum until the onset of the Holocene. These units are topped by beach and aeolian quartz sand dated to 6.6-0.1 ka. Diachronous thicknesses and lithological dissimilarities were identified between the sections studied and previous reports on adjacent coastal aeolianite ridges. Streams were found to be a dominant control on the stratigraphical composition and related facies architecture due to fluvial-induced erosion. Consequently, the relief variations between the lowland and cliff controlled aeolian pedogenesis as well as alluvial processes from about 80 to 5 ka. Climate, mainly influenced by precipitation and dust input, induced pedogenic processes; while sea level lowstand during the Last Glacial Maximum is shown to have hindered sediment deposition in the shallow offshore, which in turn affected aeolian transport, reducing sediment accumulation on the palaeo-coastal plain. The palaeoenvironmental model presented in the current study serves as an example for understanding the evolution of similar low-latitude siliciclastic-rich low-gradient shelf-coastal areas during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Furthermore, it demonstrates the influence of local to global forcing factors on these environments.

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“…We have already mentioned the comprehensive test of dating of sediments using TL and IRSL which was carried out by Huntley et al (1993aHuntley et al ( ,b, 1994 on the sequence of sand dunes in the southeast of South Australia. These dunes represent former interglacial high sea levels and have been securely related to oxygen isotope ages.…”

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“…In addition there are two groups that can make a fair claim to match geologically determined ages towards 500 ka and possibly further Huntley et al, 1993aHuntley et al, ,b, 1994.…”

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“…Spread about 10 km apart in distance and 120 ka in time, their ages run from zero at the coast to beyond 800 ka at Naracoorte where the Brunhes±Matuyama boundary is known to lie between the West and East Naracoorte Ranges. Since the members of this set of ranges have been related to sea-level curves based on d 18 O isotope measurements, and other geological evidence, the prospects for a test of TL dating in this time range were good and have since proved to be so (Huntley et al, 1993a(Huntley et al, ,b, 1994Belperio, 1995).…”

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Sediment dating by luminescence: a review

Prescott

Robertson

1997

Radiation Measurements

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AbstractÐIn the present article we review applications of luminescence methods for the determination of the age of sediments for Quaternary Earth science.``Sediment'' is taken to include any mineral particles transported by wind, water and/or ice and subsequently deposited. Methodology is not discussed per se but appears in context. The emphasis is on recent work and is illustrative rather than exhaustive. Applications in archaeology are mentioned only brie¯y. Successful dating requires that the luminescence signal has been zeroed by sunlight at the time the sediment was laid down. Dune sands and loess transported in full daylight usually satisfy this condition and have been dated by both traditional thermoluminescence and by optical methods. Optical dating is advantageous for less well-bleached sediments, such as are found in colder climates and those laid down by¯uvial and glacial processes, although the prospects for dating the latter are shown to be poor. Among less common contexts are volcanic eruptions, earthquake faults and tsunami deposits. The dating of very young sediments, less than 2 ka, is demonstrated and the factors limiting the dating of very old sediments, 500 ka to 1 Ma, are discussed. Validation of any dating method by comparison with other methods is necessary; luminescence ages have been successfully compared with ages obtained by, for example, 14 C, U±Th series and d 18O isotope ratios. The most dicult problems encountered in dating quartz, feldspars and undierentiated ®ne grain mixtures include: anomalous fading (which leads to underestimates of age), incomplete zeroing (which gives overestimates) and sample inhomogeneity. Methods devised to minimise these eects include preheating regimes, selection of observing wavelengths and of stimulating wavelengths for optical dating, the use of single aliquot and single grain measurements. The use of appropriate data analysis procedures is also important. Advice on current best practice on procedures for obtaining reliable ages is oered and, in all applications, there are suggestions as to where further research might be directed. #

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The stranded beach-dune sequence of south-east South Australia: A test of thermoluminescence dating, 0–800 ka

Cited by 197 publications

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Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: A test case from central Israel

Sediment dating by luminescence: a review

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