Early Devensian sediments and palaeovenvironmental evidence from the excavations at the Royal Oak Portal Paddington, West London, UK

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-55

  Bates, Martin R ^a   Champness, Carl ^b   Haggart, Andrew ^c   Macphail, Richard I ^d   Parfitt, Simon A ^d,e   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Archaeology South   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bison; Early Devensian; OSL dating; Pleistocene sediments; Reindeer

Indexed keywords

BONE; DEER; DEPOSITION; DEVENSIAN; EXCAVATION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

CITY OF WESTMINSTER; ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; PADDINGTON; UNITED KINGDOM;

BISON; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84890126740     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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