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dc.contributor.authorHearty, P.
dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, Mick
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:01:57Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:01:57Z
dc.date.created2014-11-19T01:13:38Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationHearty, P. and O'Leary, M. 2008. Carbonate eolianites, quartz sands, and Quaternary sea-level cycles, Western Australia: A chronostratigraphic approach. Quaternary Geochronology. 3 (1-2): pp. 26-55.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27920
dc.description.abstract

Marine and eolian carbonate deposits, grouped under the name “Tamala Limestone”, have been investigated along thousands of kilometers of coastal Western Australia (WA). Relative-age diagenetic features of carbonate sand dunes or “eolianites” indicate that coastal ridges decrease in age seaward, reflecting coastal accretion during successive sea-level stands. Yellow- to red-stained quartz sands are associated with eolianites as pits, lenses, extensive beds, and even 40-m-high dunes.A regional survey using whole-rock and land snail amino acid epimerization geochronology confirms the eolianite succession and provides a means of correlating widespread deposits along a steep climatic gradient and 16° of latitude. AMS 14C and uranium–thorium (U/Th) ages provide independent radiometric calibration of the amino acid ratios, and eolianite ages can be estimated using a parabolic kinetic model.Over 90% of the sampled eolianite deposits comprise Aminozones A, C, E (125 ka), F?, G, and H, and correlate with interglacials from <10 ka (Holocene) to ca. 500 ka. In contrast, at the type locality of the Tamala Limestone along the Zuytdorp Cliffs, the upper eolianite-paleosol units are characterized by advanced stages of cavernous weathering, pedogenesis, and recrystallization. In the same units, sediment and snail samples generally yield very low or non-detectable levels of amino acids. These factors along with the stratigraphic complexity of the deposits reflect an age much greater than a large majority of sites along the WA coastline. These findings encourage a revision of the existing classification and nomenclature of Quaternary carbonate deposits in WA, as well as a reexamination of the underlying mechanisms related to the formation and emplacement of both carbonate and quartz dunes.

dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101407000477
dc.subjectQuaternary sea-level cycles
dc.subjectEolianite
dc.subjectBothriembryon land snails
dc.subjectAmino acid epimerization dating
dc.subjectWestern Australia
dc.subjectLimestone diagenesis
dc.subjectWhole-rock
dc.subjectTamala Limestone
dc.titleCarbonate eolianites, quartz sands, and Quaternary sea-level cycles, Western Australia: A chronostratigraphic approach
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume3
dcterms.source.number1-2
dcterms.source.startPage26
dcterms.source.endPage55
dcterms.source.issn18711014
dcterms.source.titleQuaternary Geochronology
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