The Anglian Stage is the name used in the British Isles for a middle Pleistocene glaciation. It precedes the Hoxnian Stage and follows the Cromerian Stage in the British Isles. It correlates to Marine Isotope Stage 12 (MIS 12), which started about 478,000 years ago and ended about 424,000 years ago.

Description

The Anglian stage has often been correlated to the Elsterian Stage of northern Continental Europe and the Mindel Stage in the Alps.

The Anglian was the most extreme glaciation during the last two million years. In Britain the ice sheet reached the Isles of Scilly and the Western Approaches, the furthest south the ice reached in any Pleistocene ice age. In the south-east of England it diverted the River Thames from its old course through the Vale of St Albans south to its present position, and in the London area the ice sheet reached as far south as Hornchurch and Finchley.

This stage had been equated to the Kansan Stage in North America. The stage names "Kansan", "Yarmouth", "Nebraskan" and "Aftonian" were later abandoned by North American Quaternary geologists and merged into the Pre-Illinoian stage. The Anglian Stage is now correlated with the period of time which includes the Pre-Illinoian B glaciation of North America.

See also

See also

Historical names of the "four major" glacials in four regions.
RegionGlacial 1Glacial 2Glacial 3Glacial 4
AlpsGünzMindelRissWürm
North EuropeEburonianElsterianSaalianWeichselian
British IslesBeestonianAnglianWolstonianDevensian
Midwest U.S.NebraskanKansanIllinoianWisconsinan
Historical names of interglacials.
RegionInterglacial 1Interglacial 2Interglacial 3
AlpsGünz-MindelMindel-RissRiss-Würm
North EuropeWaalianHolsteinianEemian
British IslesCromerianHoxnianIpswichian
Midwest U.S.AftonianYarmouthianSangamonian

Further reading

  • Bowen, D.Q. (1978). Quaternary geology: a stratigraphic framework for multidisciplinary work. Oxford UK: Pergamon Press. ISBN978-0-08-020409-3.
  • Bridgland, D. R. (1994). Quaternary of the Thames. London, UK: Chapman and Hall.
  • Ehlers, J.; Gibbard, P.L., eds. (2004). . Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN0-444-51462-7.
  • Ehlers, J.; Gibbard, P.L.; Rose, J., eds. (1991). Glacial deposits in Great Britain and Ireland. Rotterdam: Balkema. ISBN978-90-6191-875-2.
  • Mangerud, J.; Ehlers, J.; Gibbard, P., eds. (2004). . Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN0-444-51462-7.
  • Sibrava, V.; Bowen, D.Q.; Richmond, G.M. (1986). "Quaternary Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere". Quaternary Science Reviews. 5: 1–514. doi:.

External links

  • Aber, J.S. (2006). . Emporia KS: Emporia State University. Archived from on 4 July 2008.
  • Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (2007). . Cambridge UK: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Archived from on 6 November 2008.
  • Gibbard, P. (2007). . Cambridge UK: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group.
  • Gibbard, P. (2008). . North West European Rivers. Cambridge UK: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group. (Includes PDF file of map)
  • Rolfe, C.; etal. (2004). . Cambridge UK: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group.
  • Roy, M.; Clark, P.U.; Barendregt, R.W.; Glasmann, J.R.; Enkin, R.J. (2004). (PDF). Geological Society of America Bulletin. 116 (1–2): 30–41. Bibcode:. doi:. Archived from (PDF 1.2 Mb) on 28 September 2018.
  • Shotton, F.W., nd, , The Shotton Project, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.