Incised palaeo-channels of the late Middle Pleistocene Thames: Age, origins and implications for fluvial palaeogeography and sea-level reconstruction in the southern North Sea basin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 2498-2519

  Roe, Helen M ^a   Preece, Richard C ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial incision; Hoxnian Interglacial; MIS 10; MIS 11; MIS 9; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; BURIED CHANNELS; ENGLAND; FLUVIAL INCISION; HOXNIAN INTERGLACIAL; INTERGLACIAL SEDIMENTS; INTERMEDIATE PHASE; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; OAK FORESTS; PALAEO-SALINITY; PLEISTOCENE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GRAVEL; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGE; AMINO ACID; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; INFILL; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOLLUSC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSALINITY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RACEMIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRACE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80051940611     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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