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DR. L. HAWKES'S1 interesting letter raises wide issues, if (as we believe should be done) the more precise term ‘early Post-Glacial’ be substituted for ‘Pleistocene’. That a tundra condition in Britain succeeded the disappearance of the Pleistocene ice-sheets now seems more than probable. Evidence for this is widespread. In the great sand-pit at Green-side, north Durham, one of us (W.A.) in 1936 noticed several ‘sand-dykes’ with funnel-shaped tops, which we agreed were due to frost cracking. Since then many other instances have been noted in north-east England, always in surface deposits, and usually, though not invariably, in gravels; and solufluxion phenomena are known on the Yorkshire coast, while other tundra phenomena abound in the north Lincolnshire gravels.
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CARRUTHERS, R., ANDERSON, W. Early Post-Glacial Conditions in England. Nature 147, 28 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147028b0
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