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BOREHOLES sunk in the Llyn Peris Trough, North Wales, have revealed considerable thicknesses of Quaternary deposits, including glacial lake rhythmites, sands and gravels, together with substantial amounts of organic lake mud and wood debris peats rich in pollen and macrofossils. Preliminary sedimentological and palaeontological analysis and radiometric dating indicates that the sedimentological record extends from the period of ice wastage in the valley heads into the Christian era.
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TINSLEY, H., DERBYSHIRE, E. Late-glacial and postglacial sedimentation in the Peris-Padarn Rock Basin, North Wales. Nature 260, 234–238 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260234a0
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