The late devensian lateglacial palaeoenvironmental record from whitrig bog, SE Scotland. 1. Lithostratigraphy, geochemistry and palaeobotany

Boreas

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 279-295

  Mayle, Francis E ^a,b   Lowe, John J ^a   Sheldrick, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; OXYRIA DIGYNA; SILENE;

DEVENSIAN; INTERSTADIAL; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UK, SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031429902     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1997.tb00856.x     Document Type: Article

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