The Thames Valley Sediment Conveyor: Fluvial system development over the last two interglacial-glacial cycles

Quaternaire

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 17-28

  Lewis, Simon ^a   Maddy, Darrel ^b   Glenday, Stuart ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal prism; Late Pleistocene; River Thames; Sediment conveyor; Sedimentation zones

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; DOWNCUTTING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142638802     PISSN: 11422904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/quate.2004.1751     Document Type: Article

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