The Course of the Ice Age

Ehlers, Jürgen

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-64590-1_2

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“…Ice advance is also demonstrated at Warren Hill (Three Hills), High Lodge, Lakenheath, Feltwell and Shouldham Thorpe [40,132,150,[151][152][153] (figure 14). Here Feltwell Formation meltwater deposits, comparable to those at Tottenhill, accumulated [54]. The Fenland Basin was entirely filled by a glacier during the Late Wolstonian Substage.…”

Section: Neighbouring Regionsmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Evidence of glaciation to the southeast in the Fenland Basin during the Late Wolstonian Substage is indicated by ice-contact, glacio-marginal delta fan deposits in proglacial lakes impounded by ice [150]. The deposits form part of a series of local glaciofluvial delta fans first identified at Tottenhill, Norfolk, that extended into proglacial lakes [54,55,149]. Ice advance is also demonstrated at Warren Hill (Three Hills), High Lodge, Lakenheath, Feltwell and Shouldham Thorpe [40,132,150,[151][152][153] (figure 14).…”

Section: Neighbouring Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(b) The revised stratigraphy for southern Britain proposed by Lee et al [24,52], based on the occurrence of a 'Bytham River' [22], which has been discounted in Gibbard et al [53]. (c) The 'classical' regional stratigraphy, distinguishing between Wolstonian and Anglian glacial stages, based on regional event stratigraphy from Shotton [1] and Ehlers et al [54].…”

Section: Pleistocene Geologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This ice lobe formed the eastern sector of the northeast Oadby ice in the English West Midlands and advanced down the east coast of England, entering the Fenland Basin and impounded itself against the higher ground of the Fenland margins [40,133,154]. It re-organized the rivers Nene, Ouse and Cam, and dammed several proglacial lakes within the Fenland Basin, and the Nene and Welland catchments [54,132,133,155,156]. Six luminescence ages from Shouldham Thorpe and Watlington in Norfolk and Maidscross Hill in Suffolk between 212 ± 9 and 169 ± 6 ka have been reported by Gibbard et al [156] as representing ice-marginal delta and alluvial fan deposits within the Fenland Basin as ice advance during the Late Wolstonian Substage.…”

Section: Neighbouring Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Timing and dynamics of Late Wolstonian Substage ‘Moreton Stadial’ (MIS 6) glaciation in the English West Midlands, UK

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Glaciation during the late Middle Pleistocene is widely recognized across continental northwest Europe, but its extent and palaeoenvironmental significance in the British Isles are disputed. Although glaciogenic sediments at Wolston, Warwickshire, in the English West Midlands, have been used to define the stratotype of the Wolstonian Stage, their age has been variably assigned between marine isotope stages (MIS) 12 and 6. Here we present sedimentological and stratigraphical observations from five sites across the English West Midlands whose chronology is constrained by new luminescence ages from glaciofluvial sediments, supplemented by cosmogenic 36 Cl exposure dating of erratic boulders. The ages suggest that between 199 ± 5 and 147 ± 2.5 ka the British Ice Sheet advanced into the English West Midlands as far south as Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. This advance is assigned to the Moreton Stadial of the Late Wolstonian Substage. Dating of the glaciation to this substage allows correlation of the Moreton Stadial glacial deposits in the English West Midlands with those of the Drenthe Stadial during the Late Saalian Substage across continental northwest Europe.

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