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Pleistocene

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Ice ages cover Northern lands, sea level falls

TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Woolly mammoths and rhinos, saber toothed cats. cave lions. Giant marsupials in Australia. Human hunting skills develop, many large mammals disappear.

PLANT LIFE: Grasslands

SEA LIFE: Whales

 

Geological Guide to Mappleton

 

Mappleton is part of the Holderness Coastline, and due to its rapid erosion rates, is often the subject for study in school geography lessons.

 

Holderness is underlain by Cretaceous Chalk but at Mappleton, it is so deeply buried beneath the glacial deposits that it is never exposed on the beach.

 

The cliffs are dominated by deposits of till and boulder clays deposited during the Devensian glaciation period (Pleistocene age). Within these deposits, you will find many erratics, and it is these that contain the Jurassic and Cretaceous fossils.

 

 





Pleistocene
0.01 - 1.55 MYA
L
A
T
E
 Holderness Boulder Clay and Till Mappleton
Portland Rasied Beach
 
Selsey Beds
 
March Gravels
 
Clyde Beds
 
Taplow
 
Upper Flood Plain Thames Terraces
 
Eemian
 
Wurmian
 
OIS5 East Mersea
OIS6 East Mersea
OIS7
Lower Flood Plain Themes Terrace
 
M
I
D
D
L
E
Wexford Gravels
 
Isle of Man Depostis
 
Hoxnian
 
Boyn Hill Thames Terrace
 
Rissian
 
E
A
R
L
Y
Corton Beds
Bridlington Crag
 
Yoldia Beds
 
Chillesford Beds
 
Westleton Beds

Wangford Quarry
Thorington Pit
Cromerian

Pakefield
West Runton
Overstrand
Corton
Mindelian
 
Gunzian
 
Pre-Gunzian
 
Chalky Boulder Clay

Gisleham
Field Farm
Priory Farm
Pakefield
Corton
Pre-Gunzian
  
Pastonian clays, and shell beds.
East Runton
Wroxham Crag Formation



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