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Surface textures of sand-grains from the Hertfordshire Pebble Gravels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. W. Hey ,
D. H. Krinsley  and
P. J. W. Hyde
R. W. Hey
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
D. H. Krinsley
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
P. J. W. Hyde
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
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Summary

The Pebble Gravels of Hertfordshire are among the earliest Pleistocene deposits of the London Basin. They comprise at least three successive units, and according to the most recent published views the oldest of these is marine, the youngest fluviatile, the intermediate partly marine and partly fluviatile. In the absence of fossils these views have remained open to question. Electron microscope studies of the surface textures of sand-grains suggest, however, that they may well be substantially correct.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 5 , September 1971 , pp. 377 - 382
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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