New discoveries of the Vedde Ash in southern Sweden and Scotland

Boreas

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-78

  Wastegård, Stefan ^a,b   Turney, Chris S M ^a   Lowe, J John ^a   Roberts, Stephen J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; MARKER BED; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; TEPHRA; WEICHSELIAN;

SCOTLAND; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0343130538     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/030094800424321     Document Type: Article

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