Recent landscape change and landscape restoration in Northern Ireland: A tephra-dated pollen study

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 59-68

  Hall, Valerie A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ireland; Pollen; Tephra

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; TEPHRA;

EID: 0032170395     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(98)00026-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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