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The Interglacial Beds at Hoxne, Suffolk

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RECENT attempts by Woldstedt1,2 to correlate the Pleistocene sequence in south-east England with that in northern Germany are based on the two marine horizons in each area: the correlation of the March Gravel in England with the Skaerumhede Series on the Continent is probably correct on faunal grounds, and the correlation of the Corton Beds of East Anglia with the deposits of the Holstein Sea in Germany is possibly right, though more confirmation is needed from the fossils. Woldstedt's chief difficulty was to fit the three glacial stages of Germany to the four glacial stages found in East Anglia, and this problem turns on the recognition of an equivalent of the Hoxne Interglacial of Suffolk in Germany. It is therefore important to summarize what is known so far of the interglacial beds at Hoxne.

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BADEN-POWELL, D. The Interglacial Beds at Hoxne, Suffolk. Nature 168, 701–702 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168701a0

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