An MIS 3 age organic deposit from Balglass Burn, central Scotland: Palaeoenvironmental significance and implications for the timing of the onset of the LGM ice sheet in the vicinity of the British Isles

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-308

  Brown, Eleanor J ^a,b   Rose, James ^a   Coope, Russell G ^a   Lowe, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b The Countryside Agency   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MIS 3; Organic remains; Radiocarbon; Scotland; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; GLACIOTECTONICS; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CAREX; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 33947226177     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1028     Document Type: Article

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