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Geology and Geography of the London–North Sea Uplands in Wealden Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. Allen
P. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Reading.
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Abstract

The uplands seem to have consisted of an interior highland north of the Thames made principally of Upper Palaeozoic rocks, and a marginal vale-and-scarp lowland of Jurassic strata on the south. This lowland bordered the Wealden morass. Much of the highland exceeded 1,000 feet. It was probably a high-level peneplain resurrected by end-Purbeck earth-movements. Two main rivers entered the swamps and account for most of the detritus. Their probable relations recall those of the contemporary rivers in Belgium.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 6 , December 1954 , pp. 498 - 508
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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