The Recent temperate foraminiferal biofacies of the Gippsland Shelf: an analogue for Neogene environmental analyses in southeastern Australia

Smith, Andrew J.; Gallagher, Stephen J.; Wallace, Malcolm; Holdgate, Guy; Daniels, Jim; Keene, Jock

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The Recent temperate foraminiferal biofacies of the Gippsland Shelf: an analogue for Neogene environmental analyses in southeastern Australia

Andrew J. Smith, Stephen J. Gallagher, Malcolm Wallace, Guy Holdgate, Jim Daniels, and Jock Keene

Andrew J. Smith

School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia (e-mail: )

Stephen J. Gallagher

School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia (e-mail: )

Malcolm Wallace

School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia (e-mail: )

Guy Holdgate

School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia (e-mail: )

Jim Daniels

School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia (e-mail: )

Jock Keene

School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

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