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Late Pleistocene deposits and Mollusca from Portland, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. H. Keen
D. H. Keen
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, U.K.
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Abstract

The stratigraphy and fauna of terrestrial deposits at Portland Bill is described. The fauna is restricted to the head and is indicative of a cool climate rather than the temperate conditions suggested by earlier authors. An age in the Devensian Glacial Stage is tentatively suggested.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 122 , Issue 2 , March 1985 , pp. 181 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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