A re‐examination of the evidence for a Plio‐Pleistocene marine transgression on the Chiltern Hills. II. drainage patterns

Moffat, A. J.; Catt, J. A.

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“…On the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, as elsewhere on the English Chalk outcrop, dry-valleys form an extensive dendritic network (Moffat and Catt, 1986, fig. 1) and contain a range of gelifluction, colluvial, aeolian and fluvial sediments, suggesting a complex Quaternary history (Catt and Hodgson, 1976).…”

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The origin of very flinty dry‐valley deposits in the Marlow area, Buckinghamshire, England

Espejo

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Mackney

1992

J Quaternary Science

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Some of the soils on the floors of dry chalkland valleys north of the River Thames in the Marlow area have surface horizons of moderately to very flinty, weakly or non-calcareous, poorly sorted loams, which were deposited in the late Holocene. These overlie typical chalkland gelifluction and periglacial fluvial deposits. Fine calcareous colluvial loams also occur but are less common than in valleys elsewhere on the English chalk. Particle size and mineralogical analyses suggest that the loamy matrix of the flinty surface horizons was derived from loess and early 'I,lames terrace deposits or Clay-with-flints occurring on interfluves between the dry-valleys. On the evidence of their poorly sorted nature, lack of carbonate, abundance of large flints and irregularly ridged surfaces, it is suggested that they originated mainly as valley-side debris flows. Journal of waternary Science

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