Late Middle Pleistocene ice-marginal sedimentation in East Anglia, England

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-336

  Gibbard, Philip L ^a   West, Richard G ^b   Boreham, Steve ^a   Rolfe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE MARGIN; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; PLEISTOCENE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOREAS;

EID: 84862775444     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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