Late Pleistocene chronostratigraphy and ice sheet limits, southern Ireland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 160-179

  Ó Cofaigh, Colm ^a   Telfer, Matt W ^b   Bailey, Richard M ^b   Evans, David J A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGLACIAL; END MORAINE; GLACIAL DRIFT; ICE SHEET; ICE-SHEET RETREAT; IRELAND; IRISH SEA; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHALLOW MARINE;

BEACHES; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BELT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ICE DRIFT; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRELAND; IRISH SEA;

EID: 84862015300     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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