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II.—Notes on the Pleistocene Deposits yielding Mammalian Remains in the Vicinity of Ilford, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward  and
William Davies
Henry Woodward
Affiliation:
Of the British Museum.
William Davies
Affiliation:
Of the British Museum.
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The Valley of the Thames, with its numerous tributaries, like nearly all our English river-courses, contains more or less extensive deposits of Brick-earth and gravel, which were accumulated at a period long antecedent to that when the streams had cut their higher channels down to the depth at which they at present flow.

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Original Articles
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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1874 , pp. 390 - 398
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1874

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References

page 391 note 1 Phil. Trans., vol. cliv.Google Scholar

page 391 note 2 It is true that the Rev. O. Fisher communicated to the Geol. Mag. that he had found an undoubted implement in the gravel at the base of the Crayford Brick- earthGoogle Scholar;see Geol. Mag. Vol. IX. p. 268Google Scholar; see also MrDawkins, Boyd in Quart. Journ; Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. ixviii. p. 414.Google Scholar These may, however, and probably did belong to a later date, the deposits in which they occur having been subsequently, in part perhaps locally, disturbed and re-assorted.