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Product Code: GA071

By David J. Case

GA Guide 71

Paperback, spiral-bound. 

The Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the Bristol Region coastline has great importance as a record of, and analogue for, climate fluctuation and sea-level change. This guide covers five excursions between Oldbury Flats, c. 7 km north-east of the First Severn Road Bridge, to Lilstock, c. 12 km west of Burnham-on-Sea. The excursions cover the English side of the Severn Estuary where the River Severn meets the Bristol Channel.

Excursion 1: Late Quaternary geology and geomorphology in the Severn Estuary, Aust-Northwick Warths and Oldbury Flats.

Excursion 2: Pleistocene glaciation and Holocene sea-level rise, the Gordano Valley.

Excursion 3: Late Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the Middle Hope headland and Sand Bay.

Excursion 4: Late Devensian geology and Holocene coastal development, Burnham-on-Sea to Brean Down.

Excursion 5: Holocene coastal change and geomorphology of the Lilstock to Stert coastline.