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Evidence of a Late Glacial Episode within the Valley of the Lower Thames

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. P. T. Burchell
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Since my last note appeared upon the series of deposits which fills the Ebbsfleet Channel of post-Early Mousterian (Levalloisian) age further excavations have been undertaken this year which have resulted in the complete sequence being established. It had been observed that the Trail with “ rafts ” of Coombe Rock, which overlay the flood-loam of temperate facies (deposit 8), sometimes contained in its upper portion “ rafts ” of a pale sandy brickearth; moreover, here and there, traces of this same faintly stratified brickearth occurred upon the surface of the Trail in question. In order that the true explanation of these observations might be reached, a special excavation was made at what was considered to be the most suitable spot at the site.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , February 1936 , pp. 91 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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References

1 Burchell, J. P. T., “Some Pleistocene Deposits at Kirmington and Crayford,” Geol. Mag., LXXII, 1935, 327–331.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Burchell J. P. T., “Evidence of a Further Glacial Episode within the Valley of the Lower Thames,” ibid., 1935, 90–91.