Denudation of the continental shelf between Britain and France at the glacial-interglacial timescale

Geomorphology

Volumn 203, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-96

  Mellett, Claire L ^a   Hodgson, David M ^a,c   Plater, Andrew J ^a   Mauz, Barbara ^a   Selby, Ian ^b   Lang, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Advisor to the Crown Estate   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental shelf stratigraphy; Drowned landscapes; English Channel; Quaternary; Sea level; Straits of Dover

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DENUDATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84887181868     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.03.030     Document Type: Article

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