A Lateglacial age for the Main Rock Platform, western Scotland

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 707-710

  Stone, J ^a   Lambeck, K ^a   Fifield, L K ^a   Evans, J M ^a   Cresswell, R G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

BEDROCK EROSION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DATING TECHNIQUES; GLACIAL LOADINGS; MEASUREMENTS OF; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SHORE PLATFORMS; TECTONIC UPLIFT; COSMOGENIC; LATEGLACIAL; ROCK PLATFORMS; SCOTLAND; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SEA LEVEL; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BEACH RIDGE; BEDROCK; CUTTING (EXCAVATION); LATE GLACIAL; POSTGLACIAL; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; ROCK PROPERTY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; YOUNGER DRYAS; BEDROCK EROSION; CLIFF; CLIFF RETREAT; ISOSTATIC REBOUND; MAIN ROCK PLATFORM; SEA CLIFF; SEA LEVEL; SHORELINE;

LOCH LOMOND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UK;

EID: 0030440969     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0707:ALAFTM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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