Fluvial response to rapid climate change during the Devensian (Weichselian) Lateglacial in the River Great Ouse, southern England, UK

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 193-210

  Gao, C ^a   Boreham, S ^b   Preece, R C ^b   Gibbard, P L ^b   Briant, R M ^c  

^a Ontario Geological Survey   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Facies models; Great Ouse; Lateglacial; Southern England; Wandering meandering river

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; BRAIDED RIVER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVENSIAN; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; LITHOFACIES; MEANDER; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OUSE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35549009658     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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