Pakefield - Cromerian
Pleistocene
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Ice ages cover Northern lands, sea level falls
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Woolly mammoths and rhinos, saber toothed cats.
cave lions. Giant marsupials in Australia. Human hunting skills
develop, many large mammals disappear.
PLANT LIFE: Grasslands
SEA LIFE: Whales
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British Stratification Tables
Updated and correct from 2004 MYA=Million Years Ago from present
Pleistocene
0.01 - 1.55 MYA |
L
A
T
E
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Great Eastern Drift |
Chalky outwash sands and gravels |
Happisburgh |
| Chalky Boulder Clay |
| Gravelly and chalky yellow sand |
| Laminated stoneless and chalky clay |
| North Sea Drift |
Clean Yellow sands |
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| Upper Till |
| Mundesley Sands |
| Lower Till |
| Holderness Boulder Clay and Till |
Mappleton |
Portland Rasied Beach |
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Selsey Beds |
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March Gravels |
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Clyde Beds |
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Taplow |
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Upper Flood Plain Thames Terraces |
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Eemian |
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Wurmian |
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| OIS5 |
East Mersea |
| OIS6 |
East Mersea |
OIS7 |
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Lower Flood Plain Themes Terrace |
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M
I
D
D
L
E
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Wexford Gravels |
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Isle of Man Depostis |
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Hoxnian |
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Boyn Hill Thames Terrace |
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Rissian |
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E
A
R
L
Y |
Corton Beds |
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Bridlington Crag |
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Yoldia Beds |
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Chillesford Beds |
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Westleton Beds |
Wangford Quarry
Thorington Pit |
Cromerian |
Pakefield
West Runton
Overstrand
Corton |
Mindelian |
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Gunzian |
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Pre-Gunzian |
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Chalky Boulder Clay |
Gisleham
Field Farm
Priory Farm
Pakefield
Corton |
Pre-Gunzian |
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Pastonian clays, and shell beds. |
East Runton |
Wroxham Crag Formation |
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