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THAMES GRAVELS, PURFLEET
with Danielle Schreve
Saturday 16th April 2005

This was a joint trip with SE Branch.

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Thanks to Laurie Baker and Terry Jones for their photos.

Greenland Pit, Purfleet

Danielle Schreve introducing the field day to look at Pleistocene deposits in the Lower Thames Valley.

Picture by Laurie Baker

Greenland Pit, Purfleet

Exposure of fluvial interglacial deposits at Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 9 (Lynch Hill / Corbets Tey Formation) of silty clays, shell beds and sand.

Picture by Laurie Baker

Flint artefact in situ at Greenland Pit

Picture by Terry Jones

The finder, Diana Wrench

Picture by Terry Jones

Lion Pit Tramway cutting

Picture by Laurie Baker

Exposure of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 7 – the penultimate interglacial

Picture by Laurie Baker

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