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Orford, Suffolk: Further Data on the Quaternary Evolution of the area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. P. Carr
A. P. Carr
Affiliation:
Unit of Coastal Sedimentation, Beadon Road, Taunton , Somerset
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Summary

Boreholes at, and seaward of, Lantern Marshes shed additional information on the Quaternary evolution of the Orford, Suffolk, area. The logs indicate:

(i) a more complex surface to the London Clay, which is shown to reach depths below those formerly thought;

(ii) the reality of the lower planation surface previously recorded. The surface is, however, cut across Scrobicularia and Butley (Red) Crag to a greater extent than anticipated. It proves that at least part, and probably all, of the −8.5 to −11 m surface is post Ludhamian.

(iii) a peat sample from −9.4 m indicates that relative mean sea level at 7010 B.P. was at approximately −10.7 m. The peat is overlain by shingle and confirms the residual shingle structures as later than that time.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 4 , July 1971 , pp. 311 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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