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The Breconshire End-moraine

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CHARLESWORTH1 wrote that the Newer Drift glaciation of Wales reached Swansea Bay and included much of the Vale of Glamorgan (Fig. 1). Recently the line of the “South Wales End-Moraine” has been modified2 along its western fringes, and Bowen3 believes that… “The last glaciation of Gower must … be Saale”, which suggests modification of part of the southern limit of Charlesworth's line.

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LEWIS, C. The Breconshire End-moraine. Nature 212, 1559–1561 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121559a0

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