Improved age constraint for pre- and post-Anglian temperate-stage deposits in north Norfolk, UK, from analysis of serine decomposition in Bithynia opercula

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 715-723

  Westaway, Rob ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alanine; Amino acid geochronology; Bithynia; Opercula; Pleistocene; Serine; Sidestrand

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE;

ENGLAND; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

BITHYNIA; BITHYNIA TENTACULATA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 78249232377     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1348     Document Type: Article

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