Drainage network reorganization affecting the Nene and Welland catchments of eastern England as a result of a late Middle Pleistocene glacial advance

Langford, H.E.

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“…The Fenland Basin was entirely filled by a glacier during the Late Wolstonian Substage. This ice lobe formed the eastern sector of the northeast Oadby ice in the English West Midlands and advanced down the east coast of England, entering the Fenland Basin and impounded itself against the higher ground of the Fenland margins [ 40 , 133 , 154 ]. It re-organized the rivers Nene, Ouse and Cam, and dammed several proglacial lakes within the Fenland Basin, and the Nene and Welland catchments [ 54 , 132 , 133 , 155 , 156 ].…”

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“…This ice lobe formed the eastern sector of the northeast Oadby ice in the English West Midlands and advanced down the east coast of England, entering the Fenland Basin and impounded itself against the higher ground of the Fenland margins [ 40 , 133 , 154 ]. It re-organized the rivers Nene, Ouse and Cam, and dammed several proglacial lakes within the Fenland Basin, and the Nene and Welland catchments [ 54 , 132 , 133 , 155 , 156 ]. Six luminescence ages from Shouldham Thorpe and Watlington in Norfolk and Maidscross Hill in Suffolk between 212 ± 9 and 169 ± 6 ka have been reported by Gibbard et al [ 156 ] as representing ice-marginal delta and alluvial fan deposits within the Fenland Basin as ice advance during the Late Wolstonian Substage.…”

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“…The first was immediately post-glacial maximum in the Moreton-in-Marsh area with lake waters overflowing through the Moreton Gap (137 m OD) and incising into the Moreton moraine [13,134]. The second, at a height of 129 m OD, [68,132,133] and in the west [1,6,13,26,36,67,131,134]. Inset shows the Moreton moraine, modified from Bishop [13] and Sumbler [134] (see appendix A).…”

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“…(b) The Wolstonian Stage glacial maximum during the Moreton Stadial in the English West Midlands. The glacial maximum is modified from: in the east[68,132,133] and in the west[1,6,13,26,36,67,131,134]. Inset shows the Moreton moraine, modified from Bishop[13] and Sumbler[134] (see appendix A).…”

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Timing and dynamics of Late Wolstonian Substage ‘Moreton Stadial’ (MIS 6) glaciation in the English West Midlands, UK

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Glaciation during the late Middle Pleistocene is widely recognized across continental northwest Europe, but its extent and palaeoenvironmental significance in the British Isles are disputed. Although glaciogenic sediments at Wolston, Warwickshire, in the English West Midlands, have been used to define the stratotype of the Wolstonian Stage, their age has been variably assigned between marine isotope stages (MIS) 12 and 6. Here we present sedimentological and stratigraphical observations from five sites across the English West Midlands whose chronology is constrained by new luminescence ages from glaciofluvial sediments, supplemented by cosmogenic 36 Cl exposure dating of erratic boulders. The ages suggest that between 199 ± 5 and 147 ± 2.5 ka the British Ice Sheet advanced into the English West Midlands as far south as Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. This advance is assigned to the Moreton Stadial of the Late Wolstonian Substage. Dating of the glaciation to this substage allows correlation of the Moreton Stadial glacial deposits in the English West Midlands with those of the Drenthe Stadial during the Late Saalian Substage across continental northwest Europe.

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Age-estimate evidence for a complex Middle to Late Pleistocene fluvial terrace aggradation spanning more than a 100-kyr interglacial–glacial cycle at Sutton Cross, eastern England

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Horne

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Late Middle Pleistocene Wolstonian Stage (MIS 6) glaciation in lowland Britain and its North Sea regional equivalents – a review

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Gibbard

2024

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Two major glaciations have been identified on land in England during the Middle Pleistocene. The earliest occurred during the Anglian Stage (= Elsterian, c. Marine Isotope Stage, MIS 12), evidence for which is best developed in lowland Britain, as well as offshore in the southern North Sea and Irish Sea basins. The second took place during the late Middle Pleistocene, with the most compelling evidence found in the West Midlands, intermediate between the Hoxnian (= Holsteinian; broadly MIS 11) and Ipswichian (= Eemian; broadly MIS 5e) interglacial stages during the Late Wolstonian Substage. Until recently this younger glacial episode was less clearly represented in the Pleistocene record and, as a result, had been little studied and weakly defined. Interpreted as the Moreton Stadial glaciation during the Late Wolstonian Substage (= Late Saalian Substage/Drenthe Stadial, c. MIS 6), it was originally recognized in the English Midlands, subsequently being identified in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and northern East Anglia, and potentially further SW as far as the Bristol Channel. Mapping, in particular by members of the British Geological Survey, however, resulted in the Wolstonian Stage glacial deposits being thought to pre‐date the stage. This was particularly so in East Anglia where there was considerable controversy concerning the number and relationships of glacial sequences, during the 1970–1980s. Yet to the west of East Anglia there remained unequivocal evidence for glaciation during the stage, particularly in Fenland and the eastern English Midlands. Recent radiometric dating across lowland Britain on glacial sediments long thought to belong to a glaciation event in the Wolstonian Stage have now placed a geochronological control on the established regional stratigraphy and confirmed that glaciation occurred in two phases between 199 and 147 ka during the Late Wolstonian Substage. The glacial events of the British Middle Pleistocene can clearly be correlated with the European continent.

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Drainage network reorganization affecting the Nene and Welland catchments of eastern England as a result of a late Middle Pleistocene glacial advance

Cited by 3 publications

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Timing and dynamics of Late Wolstonian Substage ‘Moreton Stadial’ (MIS 6) glaciation in the English West Midlands, UK

Timing and dynamics of Late Wolstonian Substage ‘Moreton Stadial’ (MIS 6) glaciation in the English West Midlands, UK

Age-estimate evidence for a complex Middle to Late Pleistocene fluvial terrace aggradation spanning more than a 100-kyr interglacial–glacial cycle at Sutton Cross, eastern England

Late Middle Pleistocene Wolstonian Stage (MIS 6) glaciation in lowland Britain and its North Sea regional equivalents – a review

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