Evidence for millennial-scale climatic events in the sedimentary infilling of a macrotidal estuarine system, the Seine estuary (NW France)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 499-516

  Sorrel, Philippe ^a   Tessier, Bernadette ^a   Demory, François ^b   Delsinne, Nicolas ^a   Mouazé, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b Rock Magnetic Analyses (RMA)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; ICE CONTROL; LITHOLOGY; SECURITY OF DATA; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC EVENTS; CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; COASTAL EROSIONS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HOLOCENE CLIMATES; INFILLING; LITTLE ICE AGES; MAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC PROXIES; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIODS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOMAGNETIC DATUM; PRIMARY CONTROLS; SEDIMENT CORES; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTIONS; SEVERE STORMS; TIME-SCALES; WINTER STORMS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; INFILL; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC METHOD; SEDIMENTATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORMANDY; SEINE ESTUARY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 59849104021     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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