Rate of glacial valley deepening during the late quaternary in assynt, Scotland

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-315

  Hebdon, N J ^a   Atkinson, T C ^a   Lawson, T J ^b   Young, I R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Grampian Speleological Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assynt area; Caves; Denudation; Quaternary; U series dating

Indexed keywords

CAVE; DENUDATION; GLACIAL EROSION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; QUATERNARY (LATE); VALLEY DEEPENING;

UK, SCOTLAND, HIGHLAND, ASSYNT;

EID: 0030866284     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199703)22:3<307::AID-ESP759>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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