Journal article
Lithospheric flexure, uplift, and landscape evolution in south-central England
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The high level river gravels in Oxfordshire (the Northern Drift Group), which range in age from Early Pleistocene to around 450 ka, contain pebbles that were derived from a source area to the north near Birmingham. The pebbles could not have been transported across the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic clay outcrops of the Midlands unless the region was at or close to sea level. The present day Cotswold escarpment ranges from 70 to 215 m: this uplift must therefore have occurred after deposit...
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- Journal:
- JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
- Volume:
- 157
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1169-1177
- Publication date:
- 2000-11-01
- DOI:
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2041-479X
- ISSN:
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0016-7649
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- English
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pubs:82246
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- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2000
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