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A re‐examination of the evidence for a Plio‐Pleistocene marine transgression on the Chiltern Hills. III. deposits
Author(s) -
Moffat A. J.,
Catt J. A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
earth surface processes and landforms
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9837
pISSN - 0197-9337
DOI - 10.1002/esp.3290110302
Subject(s) - marine transgression , plio pleistocene , pleistocene , fluvial , geology , paleontology , subsidence , quaternary , structural basin
A petrological re‐examination of the deposits that Wooldridge and Linton used as evidence for a Plio‐Pleistocene marine transgression on the Chiltern Hills indicates that many are fluvial and some have been reworked in a periglacial climate. However, those from Little Heath and Rothamsted, Hertfordshire and Lane End, Buckinghamshire are confirmed as marine and Plio‐Pleistocene. Subsidence during the Pleistocene is suggested by the northeasterly decline in height of the few truly marine deposits.