Evidence of episodic coastal change during the Late Holocene: The Dungeness barrier complex, SE England

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 47-58

  Plater, A J ^a   Stupples, P ^a   Roberts, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drift aligned barrier; Gravel foreland progradation; Heterolithic rhythmites; Holocene depositional history; Palaeomagnetic secular variation (PSV) dating; Tidal sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL CURRENT;

DUNGENESS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; KENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58249088750     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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