Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK

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• 作者：Christopher P. Green ; Nicholas P. Branch ; G. Russell Coope ; Michael H. Field ; David H. Keen ; James M. Wells ; Jean-Luc Schwenninger ; Richard C. Preece ; Danielle C. Schreve ; Matthew G. Canti and Christo
• 刊名：Quaternary Science Reviews
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：January 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：25
• 期：1-2
• 页码：89-113
• 全文大小：1512 K

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Middle Pleistocene deposits at Hackney, north London comprise a thick unit of organic sands and silts occupying a channel near the confluence of the River Thames in south-eastern England and its left-bank tributary the River Lea. They represent a short time interval, perhaps no more than a few years, within a late Middle Pleistocene interglacial. The organic sediments are overlain by unfossiliferous sands and gravels indicating deposition on the floodplain of a braided river under cool or cold climatic conditions. The fossil plant, insect, mollusc and vertebrate remains from the interglacial deposits all indicate climatic conditions with summers warmer than the present in SE England, and winters with a similar thermal climate. The biostratigraphic evidence suggests that the time period represented by the organic unit is part of MIS 9, although the geochronological evidence for such an age is inconclusive. The palaeontological evidence strongly suggests that this temperate stage was warmer than the succeeding temperate stage MIS 7 or the Holocene, and approaching the Ipswichian (MISs 5e) in its warmth. The multidisciplinary description of the Hackney deposits is one of the first to reconstruct terrestrial conditions in Marine Isotope Stage 9 in Western Europe.