Fluvial response to Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change in a Thames chalkland headwater: The Lambourn of southern England

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 683-697

  Newell, Andrew J ^a   Sorensen, James P R ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Uhlemann, Sebastian ^a   Roberts, Colin ^b   Gooddy, Daren C ^a   Vane, Christopher H ^a   Binley, Andrew ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Berkshire Downs; Chalk; Fluvial; Holocene; Lambourn; Late Pleistocene; Quaternary; Thames

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HEADWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

BERKSHIRE; ENGLAND; LAMBOURN RIVER; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST BERKSHIRE;

BATHYAGONUS SWANI;

EID: 84957725205     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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