Seven glacial cycles in the middle-late Pleistocene of northwest Europe: Geomorphic evidence from buried tunnel valleys

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-286

  Stewart, Margaret A ^a,b   Lonergan, Lidia ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Neftex Petroleum Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE; GEOMORPHIC IMPRINTS; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL HISTORY; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; ICE-CAPS; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE ISOTOPE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTH SEA; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; PROXY RECORDS; REFLECTION DATA; SIMILAR NUMBERS; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP SEA; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; ICE CAP; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; INFILL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; VALLEY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; GREENLAND; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79951685317     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31631.1     Document Type: Article

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