Endemic stress, farming communities and the influence of Icelandic volcanic eruptions in the Scottish Highlands

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 171, Issue , 2000, Pages 267-280

  Dodgshon, R A ^a   Gilbertson, D D ^b   Grattan, J P ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ICELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034075566     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.20     Document Type: Article

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