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New interglacial site at Sugworth

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A PRELIMINARY account is given of a richly fossiliferous interglacial deposit of Middle Pleistocene age at Sugworth, near Oxford, UK.

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BRIGGS, D., GILBERTSON, D., GOUDIE, A. et al. New interglacial site at Sugworth. Nature 257, 477–479 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257477a0

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