Marine Isotope Stage 7-6 transition age for beach sediments at Morston, north Norfolk, UK: Implications for Pleistocene chronology, stratigraphy and tectonics

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-316

  Hoare, P G ^a   Gale, S J ^a   Robinson, R A J ^b   Connell, E R ^c   Larkin, N R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beach deposits; East Anglia; Hunstanton Till; Marly Drift; MIS 7 and 6; Morston; Norfolk; Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating; Pleistocene; Sea level; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; IPSWICHIAN; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNSTANTON; MORSTON; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 66249130410     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1267     Document Type: Article

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