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Corton Formation

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135:. This indicates that the long-held assumption that the tills of the Corton Formation were deposited by a Scandinavian ice sheet is erroneous and that they were instead deposited by Scottish ice. More recently still it has been suggested that the Happisburgh Till may be in fact be pre-Anglian. This is from indirect evidence, namely the discovery of clasts of re-worked till in the deposits of the 295: 216:"Testing the case for a Middle Pleistocene Scandinavian glaciation in Eastern England: evidence for a Scottish ice source for tills within the Corton Formation of East Anglia, UK" 339: 368: 378: 142:
The sands of the Corton Formation have been interpreted as being deposited in an ice-dammed lake, possibly the one which overflowed to breach the chalk ridge of the
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Dating the Earliest Lowland Glaciation of Eastern England: A Pre-MIS 12 Early Middle Pleistocene Happisburgh Glaciation
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Moorlock B.S.P, Hamblin R.J.O, Booth S.J, Kessler H., Woods M.A. & Hobbs, P.R.N. (2002),
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Geology of the Cromer district: a brief explanation of the geological map Sheet 131 Cromer
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Lee J.R.; Rose J.; Riding J.B.; Moorlock B.S.P.; Hamblin R.J.O. (1 December 2002).
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in Britain. The formation is overlain by the Lowestoft Formation.
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that are overlain by Anglian material (, discussed online in ).
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Till, was formerly believed to have been deposited by a
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The till of the Corton Formation, known locally as the
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which becomes a pebbly sand towards the base (around
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Index

Middle Pleistocene
Suffolk
Norfolk
England
stratigraphic
facies
sand
Lowestoft
till
silty
clay
Corton
Suffolk
type locality
Anglian Stage
Pleistocene
Happisburgh
Corton
Scandinavian
Anglian
deposition
ice sheet
East Anglia
Scotland
England
North Sea
Basin
Bytham River
Weald-Artois Anticline
English Channel

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