Evidence for Middle Pleistocene temperate-climate high sea-level and lowland-scale glaciation, Chapel Hill, Norwich, UK

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-156

  Read, Adrian ^a   Godwin, Mike ^b   Mills, Claire A ^c   Juby, Caroline ^c   Lee, Jonathan R ^d   Palmer, Adrian P ^c   Candy, Ian ^c,e   Rose, James ^c  

^a Royal Holloway University of London ^*  (Norway)

^b British Geological Survey ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Anglia; Eustatic sea level; Middle Pleistocene glaciations; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAMICTON; EUSTACY; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIATION; LITHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; NORWICH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 34249316196     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(07)80032-0     Document Type: Article

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