Human impacts in Pleistocene Australia
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Detecting human impacts on the flora, fauna, and summer monsoon of Pleistocene Australia G. H. Miller, J. W. Magee, M. L. Fogel, and M. K. Gagan INSTAAR and Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, Washington, DC 20015, USA Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Received: 7 June 2006 – Accepted: 28 June 2006 – Published: 18 August 2006 Correspondence to: G. Miller ([email protected])
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