Sea level, climate change and coastal evolution in Morar, northwest Scotland

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 247-262

  Shennan, Ian ^a   Tooley, Michael ^b   Green, Frances ^a   Innes, Jim ^a   Kennington, Kevin ^c   Lloyd, Jeremy ^a   Rutherford, Mairead ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dunes; Forcing mechanisms; Holocene; Isolation basin; Management; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

MORAR; SCOTLAND(HIGHLAND); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 3342965217     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003690921945     Document Type: Article

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