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The London Clay of Coastal Suffolk and Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. G. Davis  and
G. F. Elliott
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Abstract

The London Clay exposures on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk are described and their fossils listed. Correlation is made with similar strata in Germany and Denmark, and the significance of all these beds in relation to the Lower Eocene palaeogeography of North-Western Europe is indicated.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 5 , October 1951 , pp. 329 - 338
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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