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Possible Late-Glacial Sea-levels at 190 and 140 feet O.D. in the British Isles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

Almost twenty years ago the writer mapped the series of late-Glacial drainages in the area immediately south-west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1).

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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