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On the Early Pebble Gravels of the Thames Basin from the Hertfordshire-Essex Border to Clacton-on-Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. Hazzledine Warren
Affiliation:
Forest View Road, Loughton, Essex

Abstract

The erratic rocks of the early pebble gravels are similar to those of the Oxford plateau drift, and reasons are given for concluding that they belong to the drifts of the proto-Thames, and are earlier than the southward diversion of that river by an advancing ice-sheet. Comparisons with the constituents of the later deposits of the Clacton channel are also discussed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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