Palaeoclimatic and environmental significance of major Late Quaternary drainage contributions and disruptions in the Lake Eyre basin.

这项研究将推进我们对澳大利亚有史以来发生的最显着的洪水的了解。它们与今天弗林德斯山脉贫瘠的北方尽头的一个巨大的水生生态系统有关，这是一个沙漠沙丘和盐湖的地区。值得注意的是，这种潮湿的条件似乎与巨型动物灭绝和人类占领澳大利亚的事件相吻合。研究结果将提供有价值的信息，以更好地了解澳大利亚气候严重潮湿和干燥的主要全球驱动因素。

This study will advance our knowledge of the most remarkable floods ever known to have occurred in Australia. They were associated with a vast aquatic ecosystem in what today is the barren northern end of the Flinders Ranges, a region of desert dunes and salt lakes. Remarkably, such wet conditions appear to have coincided with episodes of megafaunal extinction and with the human occupation of Australia. The results will provide valuable information with which to better understand the the main global drivers of episodes of profound wetness and dryness in Australian climate.