Late quaternary environments of the Carpentaria Basin, Australia
Abstract Quaternary variations in the level of the sea have exposed the shallow ( 29,000 km2) but shallow (maximum depth s 4 0 kyr. The pollen assemblages closely resemble the black soil plains presently found along the southern Gulf. Thus, the biogeographic and climatic barrier across the Australia Papua New Guinea land bridge has remained largely intact in spite of the range of environmental conditions that have occured during the last