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The Geology of the Wicken Vision Area, lower Cam valley, Cambridgeshire, UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

S. Boreham
S. Boreham*
Affiliation:
Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, United Kingdom Email: sb139@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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The geology of the Wicken Vision Area in the lower Cam valley is described with reference to a stacked series of ten cross-sections through Holocene and Pleistocene deposits, and Cretaceous/Jurassic bedrock across the region. A detailed cross-section through a Holocene palaeochannel, with radiocarbon dating and pollen analyses is also presented. The structural geology of the bedrock and the stratigraphic arrangement of the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits are used to describe landscape development for the area. This study offers a new understanding of the stratigraphy and context of the Holocene, Weichselian and earlier Pleistocene deposits of the lower Cam valley, and provides a unique view of sediment architecture in valley-fill sediments at the fen edge.

Keywords

HoloceneWeichselianPleistoceneCam valleyWicken Vision
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , April 2013 , pp. 47 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2013

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