Monday 6 June 2016

Loess in Britain III Chalk Heath Soils

Perrin, R.M.S.  1956.  Nature of Chalk Heath soils.   Nature 178, 31-33

Perrin, R.M.S., Davies, H., Fysh, M.D.  1974.  Distribution of late Pleistocene aeolian deposits in eastern and southern England.  Nature 248,  320-324.

The Perrin (1956) paper in Nature was a significant contribution to the study of loessic materials and deposits in Britain.  He showed that some soils to the west of London were formed by deposition of silty material on top of chalk substrates.

"The object of the work reported in my previous communication was simply to determine whether the soils on some well-developed chalk heaths could have been formed purely by solution of chalk."
                                                                                                                           RMSP  1957




 

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