25d433b0abc55e71b1bd59fa90404c92 English series University of Southampton University of Southampton Contractor "University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ" http://www.soton.ac.uk pointOfContact 2011-04-07 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.5 WGS84 OGP The Relic Paleo Landscapes of the Thames Estuary 2011-03-08 publication 2011-03-08 creation 22663 "A geological and heritage assessment of the Outer Thames Estuary as part of an MALSF-MEPF Regional Environmental Characterisation project revealed c.15,000 km2 of palaeo-landscapes hypothesised as dating from 600,000 to 720,000 years ago. These deposits lie immediately offshore from the region that has produced the earliest archaeological evidence for the occupation of the British Isles (c. 600,000 to 700,000 years ago). The exceptional level of preservation of this landscape holds great potential for: understanding our earliest archaeological heritage; understanding the broader geological changes which have occurred during several episodes of sea level change; and providing an enhanced context for a number of aggregate licensing areas and other commercial seabed projects. To resolve the true importance of this landscape this, one year, follow-on project aimed to improve the chronology of this very important submerged landscape. In order to establish the chronology of this area the project aimed to collect 30 (<6 m) long vibrocores from carefully chosen locations distributed across this landscape. These sites were identified from the interpretation of new and legacy seismic data collected during the project and provided by the aggregate industry (Resource Management Association). The retrieved sediments would be logged andappropriate materials selected for analysis by a combination of dating techniques (palaeo-secular variation (PSV), amino acid racemization (AAR), electron spin resonance (ESR), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating." University of Southampton University of Southampton Contractor "University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ" http://www.soton.ac.uk custodian University of Southampton University of Southampton Contractor "University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ" http://www.soton.ac.uk originator notPlanned .pdf Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Metadata record availability 2012-01-11T07:46:54 revision "Agriculture, environment and natural resources" GLOBAL exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor copyright English environment geoscientificInformation -0.793632 -3.491499 50.477606 54.051007 England 2011-03-08 2014-07-15 Presentation type: documentDigital Supply media: cdRom Origin: University of Southampton http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/search?q=#fq=fq%3DProject%253Amde4malsf0056 download https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1152/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. dataset Over the twelve months of the project: fifty-five square kilometres of swath bathymetry data and co-registered backscatter have been acquired; a further thirty square kilometres of swath bathymetry has been provided by the Harwich Harbour Authority; twenty-five line kilometres of boomer data from the main palaeo-river channel in the area has been acquired; and finally several hundred line kilometres of extant boomer data and a total of 133 borehole logs and photo imagery have been provided by the Resource Management Association. These datasets were fully processed and integrated with data acquired during the initial REC project to provide a three phase model of landscape evolution.