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 | | Although only the uppermost few cycles have so far been analysed for pollen, the organic matter curve suggests the sediment pile records approximately 10-14 climatic cycles. |
 | | Many of the rainforest taxa represented are now extinct, either from western Victoria (Podocarpus, Symplocos, Quintinia, Rapanea, Myrsine, Phyllocladus, Cunoniaceae, Araucariaceae) or from most or all of Australia (Ilex, Dacrydium, Dacrycarpus, Beauprea, and Tertiary form-taxa related to Microcachrys). |
 | | The rapid alternation between rainforest vegetation with characteristically "Tertiary" composition, and more familiar "Quaternary" open forests, is biogeographically important for understanding the nature and timing of the development of the overwhelmingly sclerophyllous mid and late Quaternary vegetation of southeastern Australia. |
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