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A Note on the Pleistocene Deposit at Grantchester, Cambridgeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

B. W. Sparks
B. W. Sparks
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
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Abstract

Examination of material from this locality kept in the Sedgwick Museum since 1881 has revealed much more about its molluscan fauna, especially about the frequency of species. It seems to have been a deposit of the main river Cam in the middle of the Last Interglacial.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 4 , 24 August 1964 , pp. 334 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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