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Robe Range is a coastal barrier that extends for over 155 km along the modern coastline of the Coorong Coastal Plain in southern Australia, a region renowned as preserving one of the world's longest records of Quaternary eolian dune deposition. Previous research has shown that the late Pleistocene dune development in this barrier structure is linked with sea-level highstands, particularly warm interstadials of marine isotope stage (MIS) 5. To better understand the principal depositional phases and sediment provenance of the dune successions of Robe Range, we use a combination of amino aci...

Southeast South Australia is a unique geomorphological province, preserving geographically extensive Quaternary coastal barrier successions that have formed since approximately 1 Ma. This region is considered a natural laboratory for reconstructing glacio-eustatic sea-level changes due to its far-field location remote from the former Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and a relatively high level of tectonic stability. More importantly, a consistent rate of epeirogenic uplift within this region provides an opportunity to document a record of the long-term coastal barrier evolution and its associate...

Abstract Pinnacle Point (PP) near Mossel Bay in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, is known for a series of archaeological caves with important archaeological finds. Extensive excavations and studies in two of them (PP13B and PP5-6) have documented alternating periods of anthropogenic-dominated and geogenic-dominated sedimentation. A variety of caves do not bear evidence of anthropogenic remains. We have studied in detail the remnant deposits of three of them, Staircase Cave, Crevice Cave, and PP29, which have been formed under the same geologic and sedimentary conditions with those wit...