*New Publication from the Geological Society Publishing House.
A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles. Edited by
D. Q. Bowen. June 1999.
Realization that continental records of Quaternary rocks were more complex
than hitherto believed came with the re-interpretation of oxygen isotope
stratigraphy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This necessitated a
comprehensive re-evaluation that has been assisted by the emergence of new
geochronological methods for terrestrial as well as land-sea correlations.
The current state of such correlations is presented in this revised set of
proposals for correlations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which
also includes the Quaternary geology of the continental shelf.Correlation
with the global standard of oxygen isotope stratigraphy enables the
significance of British lithostratigraphical units to be appreciated in a
wider context that includes the evolution of the climate system on a margin
of the northeast Atlantic Ocean. It thus provides timely British data for
the international palaeoceanographical and palaeoclimatological community
and the correlations proposed are primarily on Milankovitch timescales. But
their appearance coincides with the early stages of a paradigm shift to the
search for both terrestrial and land-sea correlation on millennial
timescales and then on centennial and decadal ones. This is the first of
many similar terrestrial and land-sea correlations.
1. On the correlation and classification of Quaternary deposits and land-sea
correlations. D. Q. Bowen. 2. Eastern England. G. Lewis. 3. English
Midlands. D. Maddy. 4. The Thames Valley, its tributary, valleys and their
former courses. P. L. Gibbard. 5. South and Southeast England. P. L. Gibbard
and R. C. Preece. 6. Southwest England. S. Campbell, C. O. Hunt, J. D.
Scourse, D. H. Keen & D. G. Croot. 7. Wales. D. Q. Bowen. 8. Northern
England. G. S. P Thomas. 9. Scotland. D. G. Sutherland. 10. Ireland. A. M.
McCabe. 11. The Continental Shelf. T. D. J. Cameron & R. Holmes. References.
ISBN 1-86239-042-8
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