Tuesday 7 June 2016

Loess in Britain IV South Coast

Martin, E.A.  1929.  The Pleistocene Cliff-Formation of Brighton.  South Eastern Naturalist and Antiquarian  34,  60-72.

".. there is a considerable deposit of brickearth along the Hove levels, resting, where the two are found together, on the sands which are seen at the East end of Shoreham Harbour. If this brickearth be a loess, it is more than likely that it came about as a deposit from the ice which flowed across the West Sussex plaimns down from the hills."

"One frequently sees discussion going on as to the formation of the loess, but there is nothing very mysterious about its origin. Richthofen has shown..  What is really the problem is the source of the material..  Penck and others have shown that it has a distinct relation to the glaciated parts of Europe."

Palmer, L.S., Cooke, J.H.  1923.  The Pleistocene deposits of the Portsmouth district- and their relation to man.  Proceedings of the Geologists Association  34,  252-282.

Favis-Mortlock, D., Boardman, J., Bell, M.  1997.   Modelling long-term anthropogenic erosion of a loess cover: South Downs UK.  Holocene 7, 79-89.



Reynolds, P.J., Fisher, G.C.  1985.  Loessic soils near Hook, South-East Hampshire. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society 41,  51-62.

"Many soil profiles in south Hampsghire are wholly or partially developed in the silty superficial sediment known as 'brickearth'. The Hampshire brickearth reaches considerable thickness at Barton-on-Sea and in the Itchen valley around Eastleigh, but generally it is less than 1.5m thick and overlies Pleistocene gravels..

Brickearth is known to be widespread in the Portsmouth district (Palmer & Cooke 1923) and the first modern mapping of soils developed in brickearth was by Kay (1939) in the area around the Hamble river."

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