The Holocene vegetation history of the Arfon Platform, North Wales,UK

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Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-181

  Watkins, Ruth ^a   Scourse, James D ^a   Allen, Judy R M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALNUS; BETULA; CORYLUS; JUNIPERUS; MALVACEAE; QUERCUS; TILIA; ULMUS;

EID: 34347250451     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.tb01190.x     Document Type: Article

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