Age-estimate evidence for Middle-Late Pleistocene aggradation of River Nene 1st Terrace deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-300

  Langford, H E ^a   Bateman, M D ^b   Penkman, K E H ^c   Boreham, S ^d   Briant, R M ^e   Coope, G R ^f   Keen, David H ^g  

^a University of Sheffield ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Tigh na Cleirich   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Marine oxygen isotope stages; Optically stimulated luminescence; Pleistocene; Whittlesey

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE;

CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WHITTLESEY;

MOLLUSCA; NESOCHEN SANDVICENSIS;

EID: 34548427932     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(07)80029-0     Document Type: Article

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