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English: Climate history revealed! Bottom: current beach - rounded rocks

Middle: raised beach (rounded pebbles but above current sea level) from warm period 120000 years ago (Mediterranean Climate in south Britain)

Top: head deposits (angular - broken by ice action) from 100000-20000 years ago when area was tundra and ice covered much of Britain.
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Author Hugh Venables
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Object location 50° 07′ 07″ N, 5° 41′ 56″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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