The glacial chronology of part of the Middle Trent Basin

Clayton, Keith

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“…or almost 70 m above the modern river. Clast-lithological analyses during the TVPP (Bridgland et al, 2014) revealed predominantly quartzose material derived from the Triassic of the Midlands, together with minor exotic constituents, including flint (0.5%) and granitic igneous (0.5%) and single clasts of a banded gneissose rock and Rhaxella chert, indicative of a glacial input, an interpretation in agreement with Clayton (1953). It is thus envisaged that the Wilford Hill gravel was emplaced shortly after the Anglian ice sheet retreated from the immediate area.…”

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“…The lowest terrace of the Trent, and the only one to carry the same name in all but the uppermost reaches of the system, is the formed by the Holme Pierrepont Sand and Gravel, with an upper surface typically 1-2 m above the modern floodplain; this is the 'Floodplain Terrace' of earlier workers (e.g., Clayton, 1953;Posnansky, 1960). In BGS mapping (BGS DigMap) this deposit has been defined from in the lower reaches of the Upper Trent to the Gainsborough area, beside the modern course towards the Humber.…”

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“…Figure 11 here: Long profile diagram for the Derwent and Middle Trent The high-level gravel capping Wilford Hill, on the southern outskirts of Nottingham (SK582352), was also studied during the TVPP. This deposit was interpreted by Clayton (1953) as the oldest terrace of the Trent sequence and regarded by him as outwash from what he called the 'Catuvellaunian glaciation', which is equivalent in modern terminology to the Anglian. There was later documentation of ~3 m of red-brown cryoturbated pebbly sand, with pockets of clay and northward-inclined foreset bedding (Charsley, 1989;A.S.…”

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“…th century envisaged what would now be described as a post-Anglian/pre-Devensian glaciation (e.g., Clayton, 1953;Posnansky, 1960), recent received wisdom has recognized only Anglian (MIS 12) and Late Devensian glaciations in central England, with the exception of small enclaves in north Birmingham and Lincolnshire (e.g., Lewis, 1999;Maddy, 1999;Howard et al, 2007;cf. Straw, 2000cf.…”

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The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK

Westaway

Bridgland

White

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThe Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project has recently investigated the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent, the northernmost river system in western Europe with a documented long-timescale terrace staircase. The uppermost and lowermost reaches of the Trent, which drains the English Midlands, were glaciated during Marine oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 2, but older fluvial terraces dating back to MIS 8 are preserved in the remainder of the catchment, delineating the former course through the Lincoln Gap and across the Fen Basin (the modern course to the Humber estuary dating only from the latest Pleistocene). Numerical modelling enables lateral variations in uplift across the catchment to be deduced from differences in height of these fluvial terraces above the modern valley floor. Uplift rates thus indicated over the last two climate cycles attain values of 0.08 mm a 1 around Nottingham and Derby in the middle reach of the Trent, but are significantly lower elsewhere in the catchment; these variations are shown to relate to lateral variations in crustal properties, primarily variations in radioactive heat production in the underlying continental crust. Glaciation during the late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 8) caused significant changes to the Trent catchment, including the integration of the modern Upper Trent with the rest of the system. Older sedimentary evidence is much more fragmentary, but is used along with the results of the uplift modelling to reconstruct the earlier drainage. It is thus inferred that between the Anglian (MIS 12) and Wragby (MIS 8) glaciations the Trent already flowed into the Fen Basin via the Lincoln Gap, but the smaller-than-present catchment, indicated by gravel lithology, resulted in a much steeper longitudinal gradient, such that during interglacials (MIS 11 and 9) an elongated estuary would have developed, extending inland almost to the present location of Newark. Prior to the Anglian, much of the modern Trent catchment, including the rivers Derwent and Dove, drained into the former Bytham River. The modern Middle Trent catchment downstream of Nottingham was drained by a relatively small 'Ancaster Trent' river, which flowed above the Ancaster Gap; analysis of gravel lithology suggests that it probably joined the Bytham in the area that now forms the Fen Basin.

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The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK

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Bridgland

White

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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“…This river has a post-Anglian terrace staircase, notably from the Dove confluence near Willington downstream past Nottingham to the vicinity of Lincoln (Fig. 1), that has been studied by many people (e.g., Clayton, 1953;Posnansky, 1960;Sumbler, 1988, 1991;Howard et al, 1999). These studies created the impression of a restricted terrace staircase, indicating only limited post-Anglian uplift.…”

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Quaternary uplift of northern England

Westaway

2009

Global and Planetary Change

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A Middle Devensian woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from Whitemoor Haye Quarry, Staffordshire (UK): palaeoenvironmental context and significance

Schreve

Howard

Currant

et al. 2012

J Quaternary Science

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This paper reports the discovery of a rare partial skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach, 1799) and associated fauna from a low Pleistocene terrace of the River Tame at Whitemoor Haye, Staffordshire, UK. A study of the sedimentary deposits around the rhino skeleton and associated organic‐rich clasts containing pollen, plant and arthropod remains suggests that the animal was rapidly buried on a braided river floodplain surrounded by a predominantly treeless, herb‐rich grassland. Highlights of the study include the oldest British chironomid record published to date and novel analysis of the palaeoflow regime using caddisfly remains. For the first time, comparative calculations of coleopteran and chironomid palaeotemperatures have been made on the same samples, suggesting a mean July temperature of 8–11 °C and a mean December temperature of between −22 and −16 °C. Radiocarbon age estimates on skeletal material, supported by optically stimulated luminescence ages from surrounding sediments, indicate that the rhino lived around 41–43 k cal a BP. The combined geochronological, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental evidence places the assemblage firmly within the Middle Devensian (Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3). This would agree with other regional evidence for the timing of aggradation for the lowest terrace of the Trent and its tributary systems. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The glacial chronology of part of the Middle Trent Basin

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK

The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK

Quaternary uplift of northern England

A Middle Devensian woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from Whitemoor Haye Quarry, Staffordshire (UK): palaeoenvironmental context and significance

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