Birmingham University Radiocarbon Dates IV

Shotton, F. W.; Blundell, D. J.; Williams, R. E. G.

doi:10.1017/s0033822200008158

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“…The age of the Grendon Member is unclear, but is broadly of late Middle Pleistocene Wolstonian (Saalian) age. The Ecton Member seems to be of Upper Pleistocene Devensian (Weichselian) age, with previous studies yielding radiocarbon dates from Great Billing, Thrapston, Ditchford and Raunds ca 28 000 yr BP and younger (Morgan, 1969;Shotton et al, 1969Shotton et al, , 1970Brown et al, 1994).…”

Section: Geological Settingsupporting

confidence: 60%

Climatic control on Quaternary fluvial sedimentology of a Fenland Basin river, England

Briant¹,

Bateman

Coope

et al. 2005

Sedimentology

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Understanding and interpreting climate response from ancient fluvial deposits requires a combined approach of detailed sedimentological description and interpretation, local climate proxies, and the accurate comparison of these sequences with further independent climate records. Application of these multiple lines of evidence is particularly effective in the Quaternary Period, where higher resolution and more detailed palaeoenvironmental reconstruction are possible. This paper presents results from a Devensian (Weichselian) age sequence in northern Fenland, England, that integrates these approaches. Detailed sedimentological description has identified three fluvial facies associations overlain by a period of ice‐wedge cast formation. Fossil plant and coleopteran material within these sediments have been studied to provide palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the local landscape, including quantitative temperature estimates using the mutual climatic range method on fossil Coleoptera. In addition, joint application of radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating allows this sequence to be compared with the stacked marine isotope record, although dates do not agree well at the limit of the radiocarbon technique. Sedimentological interpretations, palaeoenvironments and global ice‐volume variations (a proxy for climatic severity) are all in agreement and show clearly how the River Nene responded to subtle changes in climate and vegetation cover during the Devensian (Weichselian) Stage. The level of detail possible in this reconstruction shows the importance of this approach in understanding fluvial response to past climate changes.

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Section: Geological Settingsupporting

confidence: 60%

Climatic control on Quaternary fluvial sedimentology of a Fenland Basin river, England

Briant¹,

Bateman

Coope

et al. 2005

Sedimentology

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“…Having been initiated, deposition also continued to various times in different valley systems, with sedimentation continuing through the latter half of the period, e.g. at Stanwick (27 ka BP: Briant et al, 2008), Standlake Common (29 ka BP: Briggs et al, 1985); Brandon (29 ka BP: Coope, 1968); Great Billing (28 ka BP: Morgan, 1973;Shotton et al, 1969); and Thrapston (26 ka BP: Shotton et al, 1970). However, the paucity of dates for this episode after c. 20 ka BP suggests that almost all the streams had virtually ceased depositing sediment by this time.…”

Section: Deposition Through An Interglacial-glacial Cycle: the Late Pmentioning

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Quaternary river terraces in England: Forms, sediments and processes

Lewin

Gibbard

2010

Geomorphology

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“…(Sissons 1967), but the second sample gave an age of >40,000 years B.P. (Shotton et al 1970). The first date was originally held to support the Perth Readvance but the subsequent date cast this in doubt.…”

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The high‐level marine shell beds of Scotland and the build‐up of the last Scottish ice sheet

Sutherland

1981

Boreas

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It is argued that high‐level shell beds buried by till at various localities around the Scottish coast are in situ and represent a marine transgression immediately prior to and consequent upon loading of the earth's crust by the build‐up of the last Scottish ice sheet. The high‐level rock platforms of the Hebrides may also have been eroded at this time. A relationship between the build‐up of the last Scottish ice sheet and world sea‐level is suggested and it is further argued that the Scottish ice sheet was a more sensitive indicator of the onset (and termination) of a period of northern hemispheric glaciation than either the Laurentide or Scandinavian ice sheets. It is suggested that the build‐up of the last Scottish ice sheet took place in the Early Devensian and a tentative correlation is proposed between the Scottish evidence and the deep‐sea evidence for glacier build‐up at ca. 75,000 years B.P

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Birmingham University Radiocarbon Dates IV

Cited by 38 publications

References 6 publications

Climatic control on Quaternary fluvial sedimentology of a Fenland Basin river, England

Climatic control on Quaternary fluvial sedimentology of a Fenland Basin river, England

Quaternary river terraces in England: Forms, sediments and processes

The high‐level marine shell beds of Scotland and the build‐up of the last Scottish ice sheet

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