Holocene channel changes and geoarchaeology of the Exe River, Devon, UK, and the fl oodplain paradox

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 476, Issue , 2011, Pages 135-152

  Bennett, Jenny A ^a   Brown, Antony G ^b   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^c   Rhodes, Edward J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATCHMENTS; HISTORY; LUMINESCENCE;

APPROXIMATE AGREEMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATIONS; GEO ARCHAEOLOGIES; LATERAL MIGRATION; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RADIOCARBON DATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION;

DEVON; ENGLAND; EXE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80051898218     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2476(11)     Document Type: Article

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