Key Middle Pleistocene localities of the Lower Thames: Site conservation issues, recent research and report of a Geologists' Association excursion, 8 July, 2000

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-225

  Bridgland, David R ^a   Schreve, Danielle C ^b   Allen, Peter ^b   Keen, David H ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;

ENGLAND; LOWER THAMES RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0141793605     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(03)80014-7     Document Type: Article

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