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Pleistocene beds at Corton, Suffolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. Banham
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Bedford College, London, N. W. 1.

Summary

Recent coastal erosion has revealed another chalky till above the Lowestoft Till and separated from it by bedded clays and sands. These have shown no evidence of contemporary life and, together with the newly discovered till, are assigned to the Lowestoft Stadial at this the type-section of the Anglian (Lowestoftian) Glacial Stage.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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