A new chronological framework for Middle and Upper Pleistocene landscape evolution in the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor, UK

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-392

  Bates, Martin R ^a   Briant, Rebecca M ^b   Rhodes, Edward J ^c   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^d   Whittaker, John E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial sequences; Foraminifera; Middle Upper Pleistocene; MIS 7; Non analogue faunas; OSL dating; Ostracoda; Palaeogeography; Raised Beaches

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FORAMINIFERA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OSTRACOD; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RAISED BEACH; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ENGLAND; HAMPSHIRE; SUSSEX; UNITED KINGDOM;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 78049467014     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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