Sedimentary evidence for a major glacial oscillation and proglacial lake formation in the Solway Lowlands (Cumbria, UK) during Late Devensian deglaciation

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 505-527

  Livingstone, Stephen J ^a   Ócofaigh, Colm ^a   Evans, David J A ^a   Palmer, Adrian ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DEVENSIAN; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIATION; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ICE SHEET; LAMINATION; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; VARVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; IRISH SEA; LAKE DISTRICT; PENNINES; SCOTLAND; SOLWAY BASIN; SOUTHERN UPLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78649760811     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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