Late Quaternary Environmental Change in North-west Europe: Excavations at Holywell Coombe, South-east England Excavations at Holywell Coombe, South-east England
Holywell Coombe, an embayment in the chalk scarp overlooking Folkestone, Kent, was designated a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985 because it contains richly fossiliferous Late Quaternary sediments providing a unique archive of the last 13,000 years. The construction of the Chann...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
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Table of Contents:
- (7) The ‘Belgic’, Roman and later pottery
- (8) Conclusions
- (9) Holywell Coombe and other Channel Tunnel sites: a brief overview
- Seven. Present-day Ecology of the Folkestone Escarpment
- Seven. Present-day Ecology of the Folkestone Escarpment
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Modern surface soils
- (3) Vegetation
- (4) Invertebrate fauna
- (5) Discussion and conclusions
- Eight. Synthesis
- Eight. Synthesis
- (1) Geological sequence at Holywell Coombe
- (2) General conclusions and comparisons with sites elsewhere
- References
- One. Introduction
- One. Introduction
- (1) Previous work
- (2) Scientific importance of the Holywell Coombe site
- (3) Nature of the threat
- (4) Programme of research
- (5) The nature of the investigation
- (6) Nomenclature and terminology
- (7) Storage and archive
- Two. Environmental Background
- Two. Environmental Background
- (1) Location of the site
- (2) Palaeogeographical context
- (3) Solid geology
- (4) Geomorphology
- (5) Climate
- Three. The Geology
- 1. Stratigraphical investigations
- (1) General stratigraphy inferred from the borehole survey
- (2) Representative sections
- (3) Correlation of sections
- 2. Sedimentological investigations
- (1) Petrography of sediments and buried soils
- (2) Petrology of tufa sediments
- (3) Mineral magnetic properties of valley-fill sediments: implications for provenance and weathering history
- Four. Radiocarbon Dating
- Four. Radiocarbon Dating
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Physical and chemical pretreatment
- (3) Sample preparation and isotopic measurement
- (4) Results and discussion
- Five. Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology
- 1. Paleobotany
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Methods and results
- (3) Vegetational history
- (4) Notable plant records
- (5) Discussion
- 2. Fungal spores and other microfossils
- (1) Introduction: Quaternary palaeomycology
- (2) Methods: preparation and enumeration
- (3) Results
- (4) Fungi, algae and other non-pollen microfossils
- (5) Sample interpretations
- (6) Conclusions
- 3. Mollusca
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Sampling and laboratory analysis
- (3) Preservation
- (4) Notes on identification
- (5) Analysis of faunal change through the sections
- (6) Notes on selected species
- (7) Reversed coiling
- (8) Traces of predation
- (9) Synthesis of faunal history and molluscan zonation
- (10) Discussion and conclusions
- 4. Insects
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Sampling and analysis
- (3) Local environmental reconstructions based on the Coleoptera
- (4) Analysis of faunal changes
- (5) Summary of the local environment inferred from the Coleoptera
- (6) Climatic implications of the Coleoptera
- (7) Caddisflies and other aquatic insects N. E. Williams
- (8) Chironomidae
- 5. Mites
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Material and methods
- (3) Results
- (4) Discussion
- (5) Conclusions
- 6. Ostracoda
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Sampling and treatment of data
- (3) Taxonomy and problems of identification
- (4) Faunal analyses of the profiles
- (5) Comments on species of interest
- (6) Discussion and conclusions
- 7. Vertebrates
- (1) Introduction
- (2) Identification and interpretation
- Six. The Prehistory of Holywell Coombe
- Six. The Prehistory of Holywell Coombe
- (1) Introduction
- (2) The 1987 excavation
- (3) The 1988 excavation
- (4) The flint-work
- (5) The Neolithic-Early Bronze Age pottery
- (6) The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery