New age controls on Oligocene and Miocene sediments in southeastern Australia

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AGL Loy Yang and GHD are gratefully acknowledged for enabling the sampling of the M2A, M1B and MIA seams from the Loy Yang Open Cut Mine. We would particularly like to thank Ben Jansen (GHD) for facilitating our visits to the Loy Yang Open Cut Mine. Energy Australia is also gratefully acknowledged for enabling the sampling of the Yallourn seam from the Yallourn Open Cut Mine. We are also grateful to Dr. Alan Partridge for his insights into the identification of palynomorphs. We thank Dr. Cortland Eble, one anonymous reviewer and Professor Robert Hill for constructive and helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.