Late Pleistocene Marine Sediments and Fossils from Mussel Roe Bay, Northeastern Tasmania
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BAILLIE, P., TURNER, E. & QUILTY, P.G., 1985 (31:vii): Late Pleistocene marine sediments and fossils from Mussel Roe Bay, northeastern Tasmania. Pap. Proc.R.Soc. Tasm. 119:83-87. ISSN 0080-4703. Geological Survey of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and Antarctic Division, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Foraminiferaand mollusc-bearing estuarine sediments were encountered in one of a series of auger holes drilled in Late Pleistocene interglacial sands at Mussel Roe Bay, northeastern Tasmania. It is proposed that the estuary formed behind a bay-mouth barrier similar to that presently occurring between Mussel Roe Bay and Great Mussel Roe Bay.
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