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A STUDY of Quaternary deposits in south-east Suffolk revealed a complex, and hitherto unrecognised Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence1. The probable ages of the units in the sequence are, from the base upwards, river sands and gravels of Beestonian age, a rubified palaeosol of Cromerian age, and a periglacial palaeosol, loess, glacifluvial gravel, and till of Anglian age (Table 1). A preliminary survey of the Quaternary deposits in Essex has revealed a similar sequence. We here outline the main characteristics of this sequence, which has now been recognised over some 2,000 km2 in southern East Anglia, and discuss its palaeoenvironmental significance.
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ROSE, J., ALLEN, P. & HEY, R. Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy in southern East Anglia. Nature 263, 492–494 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263492a0
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