Thursday 9 June 2016

Loess in Britain VI Pegwell Bay

The Geology of Pegwell Bay.  Peter Golding: Kent Geologists Group; www.kgg.org.uk/pegnotes.pdf.

Pitcher, W.S., Shearman, D.J., Pugh, D.C.  1954.  The loess of Pegwell Bay, Kent, and its associated frost soils. Geological Magazine 91, 308-314.

Weir, A.H., Catt, J.A., Madgett, P.A.  1971.  Postglacial soil formation in the loess of Pegwell Bay, Kent (England).  Geoderma 5, 131-149.




The simple map shows the setting of the Pegwell Bay loess. Pegwell Bay is where the River Stour flows out into the Channel. The river flows through the North Downs from Ashford to Canterbury; the headwaters drain a region in the Weald; the north-eastern part of the Weald, east of the Medway drainage.  In the classic 'rivers and loess' situation the Pegwell Bay loess is the product of the River Stour, and is composed of loess material initially deposited in the Weald of Kent.

Burrin, P.J.  1981.  Loess in the Weald. Proceedings of the Geologists Association 92, 87-92. see also R.W.Gallois PGA 93, 316

Fookes, P.G., Best, R.  1968.  Geotechnical properties and geological aspects of the Pegwell Bay loess, East Kent. PGA 147, 41-44

Fookes, P.G., Best, R.  1969.  Consolidation characteristics of some late Pleistocene periglacial metastable soils of East Kent.  Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 2, 103-128.



Pegwell Bay by William Dyce.

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