Context: A perspective on D.R. Bridgland's paper 'The Middle and Upper Pleistocene sequence in the Lower Thames: A record of Milankovitch climatic fluctuation and early human occupation of southern Britain'

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-279

  Rose, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial; Milankovitch forcing; Palaeolithic; Quaternary; Thames

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE;

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

EID: 33747626096     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(06)80035-0     Document Type: Article

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