01340nas a2200133   4500008004100000245009200041210006900133260001200202490000800214520087400222100001801096700002201114856007001136       1996                        eng d00aA gravel beach-rip channel system: the Westleton Beds (Pleistocene) of Suffolk, England0 agravel beachrip channel system the Westleton Beds Pleistocene of  c01/19960 v1073 aThe Westleton Beds of northeast Suffolk, England, represent a Pleistocene gravelly shoreline within which three facies are distinguished. A large-scale, cross-stratified, gravel-dominated facies (A) dips predominantly offshore and is interpreted as a beach-face deposit. This facies passes seawards into a 'transitional' zone characterized by a horizontally stratified sand facies (B). This is incised into, and replaced seawards, by a third facies (C) deposited in channel-forms. Nearshore these channels are gravel-filled; further offshore they are regularly spaced, up to 2 m deep, their bases commonly being rimmed by gravel which fines upwards into sand. Several such fining-upward pulses are present in the infill of some of the larger channel-forms. It is suggested that these channels were cut and infilled by sporadic high-energy seaward-directed rip-currents.1 aMathers, S.J.1 aZalasiewicz, J.A.  uhttps://neogenebryozoans.myspecies.info/mathersandzalasiewicz1996