TY - JOUR T1 - The Westleton Beds Reconsidered JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 1967 A1 - Hey, R.W. AB - Various early Pleistocene gravels in East Anglia were grouped together by Prestwich (1871, 1890) as the Westleton Beds. It is shown in this paper that deposits virtually identical with those at Westleton extend over an area of about ninety square miles in north-east Suffolk and also occur in a much smaller area in south-east Norfolk. Elsewhere, however, all the deposits of Prestwich's Westleton Beds differ in various ways from those of the type-locality. None of these other deposits can be shown to pass laterally into those of the type-locality and some are certainly younger. Hence it is proposed that they should now be excluded from the Westleton Beds, which would thus be reduced to a relatively uniform formation of restricted areal extent. It is thought that the Westleton Beds, as here redefined, are older than the Lowestoft Stage and younger than most of the Baventian Stage. Their marine origin is confirmed, and it is suggested that they were laid down to a large extent as beach-plain deposits, similar to those at Dungeness, on a shoreline which was prograding from north-west to south-east. VL - 78 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A gravel beach-rip channel system: the Westleton Beds (Pleistocene) of Suffolk, England JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 1996 A1 - Mathers, S.J. A1 - Zalasiewicz, J.A. AB - The 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. VL - 107 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The stratigraphy and structure of the Crag of mid-Suffolk, England JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 1983 A1 - Bristow, C.R. AB - Glauconite-coated flints at the base of a recently recognized spread of Crag deposits are thought to have been derived from a formerly more extensive basal Bullhead Bed of the Thanet Beds. No lithological basis has been found for subdividing the Crag into Norwich and Red Crag, although the faunal criteria for separation these two Crags is of chronological significance. A number of sub-drift northeasterly trending faults and fault-guided Crag basins have been identified. The age of these structures is thought to be early Pleistocene and there was probably syndepositional movement along the faults. VL - 94 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Red Crag and Norwich Crag formations in eastern Suffolk JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 1997 A1 - Hamblin, R.J.O. A1 - Moorlock, B.S.P. A1 - Booth, S.J. A1 - Jeffery, D.H. A1 - Morigi, A.N. AB - The Red Crag Formation of eastern Suffolk was deposited in structurally controlled basins during the Pree-Ludhamian, Ludhamian and Thurnian stages. A regression during the Thurnian was followed bya transgression during the Antian/Bramertonian Stage, with the Norwich Crag Formation resting unconformably on strata as old as Upper Cretaceous. A regression during the Baventian Stage led to the formation of a complex of shoreface gravels (Westleton Beds) and intertidal clays at the mouth of a river which flowed from the English Midlands to reach the sea in the Southwold area. The Chillesford Clay Member was formed penecontemporaneously at the estuary of the proto-Thames, further south. A further marine transgression occurred during the Pastonian. The Pre-Ludhamian, Antian/Bramertonian and Pastonian transgressions are tentatively correlated with the reflectors respectively at the base of the Westkapelle Ground, Smith's Knoll and Winterton Shoal formations of the southern North Sea. VL - 108 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Field Meeting to the Bawdsey Peninsula, Suffolk, England, 22nd May 2010, to examine London Clay, Coralline Crag and Red Crag deposits. Leaders: Roger Dixon and Bob Markham JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dixon, R.G. AB - A one-day Geologists' Association field excursion to the Bawdsey Peninsula in coastal Suffolk is described, with a guided tour of 'The Pliocene Island' at Sutton Knoll and visits to examine coastal erosion, the London Clay and Red Crag at Bawdsey East Lane, and the Red Crag at Alderton and Ramsholt. The depositional environments indicated by the Crag sediments and faunas are discussed, and non-derived Red Crag mollusc faunas at Sutton and sand-wave mollusc assemblages from Ramsholt are described. VL - 122 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The lithostratigraphy of the Coralline Crag (Pliocene) of Suffolk JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 1993 A1 - Balson, Peter S. A1 - Mathers, S.J. A1 - Zalasiewicz AB - A series of 7 boreholes (3 rotary and 4 shell and auger) were drilled by the British Geological Survey through the main outcrop of the Pliocene Coralline Crag Formation between Gedgrave and Aldeburgh in Suffolk between 1982 and 1985. The boreholes proved three members distinguished on the basis of grain size, sorting, carbonate content and fauna. The oldest, the Ramsholt Member, rests unconformably on the Palaeocene-Eocene London Clay Formation. It comprises a basal phosphorite-rich gravel with shelly mud-rich sands above. The Sudbourne Member unconformably overlies the Ramsholt Member and consists of cross-stratified, well-sorted carbonate sands, laid down as a tidal sand ridge. A third member, the Aldeburgh Member is found only in the northern part of the outcrop where it overlies the Ramshot Member. It consists of mud-poor, moderately sorted carbonate sand, and is probably the offshore (deeper water) equivalent of the Sudbourne Member. VL - 104 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Field Meeting: Coastal Suffolk Crag weekend, 23-25 April 2004 JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Y1 - 2005 A1 - Dixon, R.G. AB - The Coralline, Red and Chillesford Crags were studied in coastal Suffolk, paying particular attention to the depositional environments indicated by the sedimentology and fauna. Building materials and the historical aspects of local geology were also considered. VL - 116 ER -