Edge-roundness of boulders of Torridonian Sandstone (northwest Scotland): Applications for relative dating and implications for warm and cold climate weathering rates

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-198

  Kirkbride, Martin P ^a   Bell, Cara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; EROSION RATE; INTERGLACIAL; MORAINE; QUATERNARY; ROCK AVALANCHE; SANDSTONE; TORRIDONIAN; WEATHERING RATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77953898147     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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