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Amplification of the Wolstonian Stage of the British Pleistocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. W. Shotton
F. W. Shotton
Affiliation:
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
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Summary

The lithostratigraphical division of the Wolstonian Stage of the British Pleistocene is reviewed in the light of borehole records along the line of the M 69 motorway. The Wolston Clay is divided into 5 members. The evidence from the M 69 shows that 2 periods of glacier advance were separated by a major period of recession of the order of 104 years, in which most of the sediments of Glacial Lake Harrison were deposited. It is argued that this recession was interstadial rather than interglacial.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 113 , Issue 3 , May 1976 , pp. 241 - 250
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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