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Large Scale Patterned Ground in the Valley of the Worcestershire Avon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. W. Shotton
F. W. Shotton
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Birmingham.
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Abstract

Crop markings reveal a polygonal network resembling that of “patterned ground” in arctic Alaska. From this the former presence of perennially frozen ground is inferred, with the implication that the mean annual isotherm of this part of Worcestershire was at least 13½° C. lower than it is at present. It is argued that this condition obtained at the period of the Irish Sea Glaciation maximum.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 97 , Issue 5 , October 1960 , pp. 404 - 408
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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