Sediment provenance and flux in the Tees Estuary: The record from the Late Devensian to the present

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 166, Issue , 2000, Pages 171-195

  Plater, A J ^a   Ridgway, J ^b   Rayner, B ^a   Shennan, I ^c   Horton, B P ^c   Haworth, E Y ^d   Wright, M R ^c   Rutherford, M M ^c   Wintle, A G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEVENSIAN; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HOLOCENE; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; PROVENANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034081161     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.166.01.10     Document Type: Article

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