Foraminifera from the glacigenic deposits at Broughton Bay, South Wales: Evidence for glacimarine or terrestrial ice-sheet déglaciation of the Irish Sea Basin?

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-152

  Shakesby, Richard A ^a,b   Austin, William E N ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DEVENSIAN; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034010295     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(00)80004-8     Document Type: Article

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