Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0773815

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0773815

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Exposure dating with manganese-53, neon-21 and beryllium-10: a new toolkit for studying long-term landscape evolution. Australia today is the driest inhabited continent but this was not always the case. Tens of millions of years ago the climate of Australia was considerably wetter. Then, several million years ago, aridity in Australia developed producing most of the desert features of the red Centre that we see today. The age of our deserts and other arid features are not, however, well known. This project will determine the age of desertification in Australia, thereby enhancing our understanding of such processes and the response of our landscape to changing climate.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $378,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochronology | Geomorphology | Geology | Instruments And Techniques |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Land and water management | Other

Other Keywords

Climate variability | Geochronology | Geology | Geomorphology | Instruments And Techniques | Land and water management | Other

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