Lateglacial ice-cap dynamics in NW Scotland: evidence from the fjords of the Summer Isles region

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3161-3184

  Stoker, Martyn S ^a   Bradwell, Tom ^a   Howe, John A ^b   Wilkinson, Ian P ^a   McIntyre, Kate ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; DEGLACIATIONS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EXPOSURE AGE; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; ICE MASS; ICE SHEET; LATEGLACIAL; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LITHOFACIES; MICROFAUNA; MULTI-BEAM; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SCOTLAND; SEA FLOOR; SEABED SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC CHARACTER; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC FACIES; SEISMOTECTONICS; SWATH BATHYMETRY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER CRIME; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; LANDFORMS; LEAD ACID BATTERIES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FAUNA; FJORD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIATION; ICE CAP; LATE GLACIAL; LITHOFACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MORAINE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SUBMARINE; SWATH BATHYMETRY; TILL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HEBRIDES; HIGHLAND; INNER HEBRIDES; SCOTLAND; SUMMER ISLES; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70549101149     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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