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Constant wind regimes during the Last Glacial Maximum and early Holocene: evidence from Little Llangothlin Lagoon, New England Tablelands, eastern Australia
James Shulmeister
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of
Queensland, St. Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Justine Kemp
Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan 4111, Queensland,
Australia
Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Allen Gontz
School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
02125, USA
current address: Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State
University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
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This paper highlights that small dunes (lunettes) formed on the eastern side of a lake in the Australian sub-tropics at the height of the last ice age (about 21,000 years ago) and in the early part of the current interglacial (9–6,000 years ago). This means that it was fairly wet at these times and also that there were strong westerly winds to form the dunes. Today strong westerly winds occur in winter, and we infer that the same was also true at those times, suggesting no change in circulation.
This paper highlights that small dunes (lunettes) formed on the eastern side of a lake in the...
