Depositional environments and chronology of Late Weichselian glaciation and deglaciation in the central North Sea

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-491

  Graham, Alastair G C ^a   Lonergan, Lidia ^b   Stoker, Martyn S ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAMICTON; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 78649501227     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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