An Early Pleistocene cold marine episode in the North Sea: pollen and faunal assemblages at Covehithe, Suffolk, England |
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| Authors: | Richard O West Brian M Funnell Peter E P Norton |
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| Institution: | Sub-department of Quaternary Research, Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.;School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.;Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Pollen spectra indicating grass-heath with Empetrum are recorded from a c. 2 m thick Baventian marine clay bed at Covehithe, Suffolk, deposited in a sublittoral to intertidal environment. For the first time arctic assemblages of both foraminifers and molluscs are recorded from this Baventian clay, which is now confirmed as representing the first cold stage of truly glacial intensity in the English marine Early Pleistocene succession. |
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