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The Pleistocene Barrier Sequence of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia

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Quaternary History of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia

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The succession of coastal barrier landforms of the Coorong Coastal Plain in southern Australia has been mapped as the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation in reference to partially consolidated mixed quartz-skeletal carbonate sands (aeolianites). Up to 20 distinct barriers have been identified relating to interglacial or interstadial sea level highstands across the 90 km wide coastal plain, 17 of which are younger than the Brunhes-Matuyama geomagnetic polarity reversal at 781 ka. Not all the barrier landforms are identified in a single line of section across the coastal plain due to the combined influences of barrier deposition on a subtly irregular land surface, differential rates of neotectonic uplift along the shore-parallel length of the coastal plain, and more localised factors such as bedrock outcrops affecting the broad regional pattern of barrier sedimentation. Many of the barriers can be traced laterally along their strike lengths for distances of 10–100 s of kilometres, such as the last interglacial (MIS 5e) Woakwine Range which extends for 340 km along the entire length of the coastal plain. Some of the barriers are composite structures having formed in more than one interglacial, attesting to the similarity in the height of successive interglacial sea level highstands (±6 m) during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Composite barriers are characterised by superposed, unconformity-bounded successions of aeolian dune facies (aeolianite) with thinly interbedded transgressive shelly gravels and palaeosols defining the surfaces of unconformity.

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Murray-Wallace, C.V. (2018). The Pleistocene Barrier Sequence of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia. In: Quaternary History of the Coorong Coastal Plain, Southern Australia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89342-6_2

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