Geochemical Provenancing of Igneous Glacial Erratics from Southern Britain, and Implications for Prehistoric Stone Implement Distributions

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-246

  Williams Thorpe, Olwen ^a   Aldiss, Don ^b   Rigby, Ian J ^c   Thorpe, Richard S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLIAN; CARBONIFEROUS; DIABASE; ERRATIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCK; OLD RED SANDSTONE; PETROGRAPHY; PREHISTORIC; PROVENANCE; QUARRYING; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0005682060     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199903)14:3<209::AID-GEA1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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