Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources ...

• Main Authors: Allen, P, Bain, DR, Bridgland, DR, Buisson, P, Buylaert, JP, Bynoe, R, George, WH, Haggart, BA, Horne, DJ, Littlewood, EM, Lord, AR, March, AC, Mercer, I, Mercer, R, Murray, AS, Penkman, KEH, Preece, RC, Ratford, J, Schreve, DC, Snelling, AJR, Sohar, K, Whittaker, J, White, MJ, White, TS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: fluvial archives; MIS 12 glaciation; River Thames; molluscs; Palaeolithic artefacts; ostracods; citizen science; luminescence dating; AAR dating; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.89159; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/341737

Peer reviewed: True ... : This paper presents an updated geological reconstruction of the Quaternary evolution of the River Thames at its downstream extremities, close to the North Sea coast, based on new data from multi-disciplinary and citizen-science sources. In this area, the interaction of the Thames with the MIS 12 (Anglian) glaciation is an important part of the Quaternary archive. The Anglian ice sheet, which reached parts of north and east London, was responsible for diverting the Thames southwards into its present course, although the footprint of the maximum ice sheet(s) does not reach the North Sea coast south of Hollesley, Suffolk. Further south, the coastal zone hosts pre-Anglian and early Anglian river-terrace deposits of the pre-diversion Thames system, superimposed upon which are products of later post-Anglian rivers, of both Middle and Late Pleistocene age. On the peninsula between the Stour and Blackwater–Colne estuaries, the lowest and most recent terrace of the pre-diversion Thames includes evidence directly ...