Holocene, Weichselian Late-glacial and earlier Pleistocene deposits of the upper Cam valley at the Hinxton Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, UK

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-125

  Boreham, S ^a   Rolfe, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cam valley; Holocene; Weichselian late glacial pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LATE GLACIAL; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VALLEY FILL; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79953310978     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600000925     Document Type: Article

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