An Insect Assemblage of Early Flandrian Age from Lea Marston, Warwickshire, and its Bearing on the Contemporary Climate and Ecology

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Author: Osborne, P.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1974
• Subjects: Arctic; Midland; Marston
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(74)90040-4; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900404?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900404?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400031306

An extensive insect fauna is described from an organic deposit occurring in a gravel pit at Lea Marston, Warwickshire, England. This organic deposit was lying beneath approximately 2.5 m of alluvial clay and directly above gravels which had provided organic material 14 C dated at 11,700 ± 200 yr BP....