Geochemical and radiochronological evidence of North Sea storm surges in salt marsh cores from the Wash embayment (UK)

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-236

  Tsompanoglou, Konstantinos ^a   Croudace, Ian W ^b   Birch, Heather ^c   Collins, Michael ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

caesium 137; lead 210; radiochronology; saltmarsh; sediment accumulation; sediment geochemistry; sedimentation; The Wash; UK

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LEAD ISOTOPE; MOBILITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; REDOX CONDITIONS; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTATION; STORM SURGE; TIDAL CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; NORTH SEA; SELLAFIELD; THE WASH; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79952091997     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610378878     Document Type: Article

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