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The focus of this book is on sediments that currently cover the continental margin seafloor across southern Australia. It quickly became obvious during the early stages of our research, however, that these deposits are not simply a product of modern processes but that they are inexorably linked to the Pleistocene prehistory. The influence of the Pleistocene has been twofold; (1) antecedent topography created by Pleistocene deposition has created a template upon which modern sediments are accumulating–this control is especially important in shallow marine environments, (2) today’s seafloor sediments contain older particles that were produced in the Pleistocene.
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James, N.P., Bone, Y. (2010). The Pleistocene Record. In: Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9289-2_3
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