The magnetic properties of the recent sediments of Brothers Water, N W England

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-174

  Oldfield, Frank ^a,b   Wu, Ruijin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PAGES International Project Office   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Erosion; Lake sediments; Late Holocene; Magnetism; Magnetotactic bacteria

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034024367     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008049419623     Document Type: Article

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