On the age of the Hoxnian interglacial

✍ Scribed by N. R. Page

• Book ID: 102846641
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 762 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0072-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/gj.3350080112

✦ Synopsis

Fifteen new radiocarbon datings from British Pleistocene deposits are described. The datings are related to the classic Pleistocene succession and shown to be consistent with the stratigraphic sequence of East Anglia. On the basis of these datings, an absolute chronology is developed.

According to this chronology, the glacial drifts of East Anglia ought to postdate 4O.OOO B.P. and hence belong to the Last Glaciation of the British Isles. The Hoxnian interglacial of this chronology is dated between about 25,500-21,OOO B.P. The conventional age for the Hoxnian interglacial is 175,000-120,000 B.P. The validity of the radiocarbon datings is considered and some of the implications and problems of a revised age for the Hoxnian interglacial are reviewed.