Towards improved empirical isobase models of Holocene land uplift for mainland Scotland, UK

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 949-972

  Smith, David E ^a   Fretwell, Peter T ^b   Cullingford, Robin A ^c   Firth, Callum R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blairdrummond shoreline; Gaussian trend surface; Holocene Storegga Slide tsunami shoreline; Isobase; Main Postglacial shoreline; Wigtown shoreline

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BLAIRDRUMMOND SHORELINE; ISOBASE; MAIN POSTGLACIAL SHORELINE; STOREGGA SLIDE; TREND SURFACE; WIGTOWN SHORELINE;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 33645566859     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1748     Document Type: Article

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