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On the origin of Grunty Fen and other landforms in southern Fenland, Cambridgeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. G. West
R. G. West
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Subdepartment of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K.
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Abstract

Depressions and embayments of the southern Fenland margin and islands are ascribed to periglacial processes in the Devensian Stage (last cold stage) of the Pleistocene. The processes, which may be included in the general term thermokarst, include thermal erosion as an important element. The age of the active landscape evolution appears to be Late Devensian. The Crowland Bed of the Fenland Pleistocene succession is a product of these processes.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 128 , Issue 3 , May 1991 , pp. 257 - 262
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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