Impacts of late Holocene rapid climate changes as recorded in a macrotidal coastal setting (Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France)

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1031-1034

  Billeaud, I ^a   Tessier, B ^a   Lesueur, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENES; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; TIDAL CYCLE; TIME-SCALES; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; WAVE DYNAMICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; TIDAL CYCLE; TIMESCALE; TRANSGRESSION;

BASSE NORMANDIE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MANCHE; MONT SAINT MICHEL BAY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450203425     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30310A.1     Document Type: Article

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