Signatures of quaternary fluvial response, upper River Trent, Staffordshire, UK: A synthesis of outcrop, documentary, and GPR data

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-374

  Davies, Neil S ^a   Smith, Gregory H Sambrook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLUENCE; DEVENSIAN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HOLOCENE; OUTCROP; QUATERNARY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; STAFFORDSHIRE; TRENT RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750159442     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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