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The Source of Some Erratics from North-Eastern Northamptonshire and adjacent parts of Huntingdonshire1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Abstract

A collection of erratics from the Boulder Clay and associated remanie drift of the Nene Valley includes distinctive sedimentary, igneous, pyroclastic, and metamorphic rocks. Localities are suggested from which these may have originated and it is concluded that the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay was brought by ice moving from a direction west of north.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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Footnotes

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Communicated with the permission of the Director of the Geological Survey and Museum.

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