Some last glaciation drift deposits near Pontypridd, South Wales
作者:
C. Harris,
M. D. Wright,
期刊:
Geological Journal
(WILEY Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 1
页码: 7-20
ISSN:0072-1050
年代: 1980
DOI:10.1002/gj.3350150104
出版商: John Wiley&Sons Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractDrift deposits exposed in a large open cut are described. The basal member of the sequence consists of bedded sandy gravels, and these are overlain by a grey silty sand containing abundant striated pebbles and boulders. The uppermost deposit consists of a brown poorly sorted drift containing silty and sandy lenses. Analysis of the texture, index properties and densities of the sediments, together with the shape, lithology and fabric of the contained pebbles suggests that the basal gravels were deposited by subglacial meltwater, the grey drift is a lodgement till, and the uppermost brown rubbly drift was formed by solifluction of the till, with the addition of frost shattered sandstone from the hilltop above. It is suggested that the glacigenic sediments are of Devensian age, and the solifluction layer Late Devensian.
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