10,000 years of vegetation history of the Aa palaeoestuary, St-Omer Basin, northern France

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 156, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 307-318

  Gandouin, Emmanuel ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a   Andrieu Ponel, Valérie ^a   Guiter, Frédéric ^a   de Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^a   Djamali, Morteza ^a   Franquet, Evelyne ^a   Van Vliet Lanoë, Brigitte ^b   Alvitre, Maryse ^a   Meurisse, Murielle ^b   Brocandel, Marcel ^c   Brulhet, Jacques ^c  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c ANDRA   (France)

Author keywords

flood plain; human impact; marine transgression; North Sea; pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PREBOREAL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TRANSGRESSION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORD PAS DE CALAIS; NORTH SEA; PAS DE CALAIS; SAINT OMER BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70049100970     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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