Late Holocene coastal sand movements in the Outer Hebrides, N.W. Scotland

Marine Geology

Volumn 210, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 281-306

  Dawson, Sue ^a   Smith, David E ^b   Jordan, Jason ^c   Dawson, Alastair G ^c  

^a Res Consultant in Quaternary Sci   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Little Ice Age (LIA); machair; Medieval Warm Period (MWP); North Atlantic; Outer Hebrides; Scotland; storminess

Indexed keywords

COASTAL STORMINESS; MARSHLAND;

CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; SAND; SEA ICE; STORMS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

GEOLOGY;

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STORM DEPOSIT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HEBRIDES; OUTER HEBRIDES; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4344629916     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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