The controls on late-Holocene coastal dune formation on leeside coasts of the British Isles

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 141, Issue , 2005, Pages 135-152

  Orford, J D ^a,b  

^a Queen's University ^*

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; DUNE FORMATION; LITTLE ICE AGE;

DOWN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MURLOUGH DUNES; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; NORTHERN IRELAND; NORTHUMBERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751237224     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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