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Evidence is presented for the existence of two distinct pre-Flandrian palaeosols at a single site, Kirkhill Quarry, in Buchan, north-east Scotland. This is the first such site reported from Scotland and it is possible that the two palaeosols represent interglacial episodes which are equivalent in age to last interglacial (compare with Ipswichian) and the penultimate interglacial (compare with Hoxnian)—a combination so far unknown in the British Isles. The stratigraphy also demonstrates that the part of the Buchan plateau under study may have been glaciated on at least three separate occasions.
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Connell, E., Edwards, K. & Hall, A. Evidence for two pre-Flandrian palaeosols in Buchan, north-east Scotland. Nature 297, 570–572 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/297570a0
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