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Sep 2015 - Suffolk
RGS Autumn Field Meeting
Leader: Peter Worsley
Pliocene Forest – RGS sponsored a tree for the late Howard Rose

Pliocene Forest

Marks Tey - Hoxnian interglacial site in claypit at Collier Brickworks

Brick making at W.H.Collier

Clay pit at Bulmers Brickworks

Section in Bulmer's pit - in Harwich Formation

Traditional brick kiln

Sutton Knoll display board – GeoSuffolk

Solution pipe in Coralline crag.

View to the west from Sutton Knoll

Pliocene Forest – RGS sponsored a tree for the late Howard Rose

Bawdsey East Cliff – convoluted bedding in Red Crag overlying London Clay

Cross bedding in Buckenay Farm Pit in Red Crag

Tourist trip to Sutton Hoo at the end of the day,

Westleton Beds at Wangford Quarry (early Pleistocene)

Pakefield cliffs – important Quaternary geological and archaeological site

Cromer Forest-bed Formation, overlain by the Anglian-aged Corton Sands Member and an overlying till, the Lowestoft Formation.

Lunch at Corton (Anglian type site)

Leet Hill Quarry; Kesgrave Group, Corton Sands and overlain by Lowestoft till

Hoxne – type site for Hoxnian interglacial

Harkness foreshore

Harwich Formation (incorporating the Harwich Stone bed)

An RGS-er finds a beautiful example of a Mousterian hand axe

The hand axe

Effects of permafrost in Harwich Formation

Thank you Peter from the RGS!