Sea-level changes, river activity, soil development and glaciation around the western margins of the southern North Sea Basin during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene: Evidence from Pakefield, Suffolk, UK

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-179

  Lee, Jonathan R ^a,b   Rose, James ^b   Candy, Ian ^b,c   Barendregt, Rene W ^d  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early and Middle Pleistocene; Glaciation; Lithological analysis; North Sea; Palaeomagnetism; Pre glacial river systems; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 32944473020     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.957     Document Type: Article

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