Earth Wave n°1
Detailed view of the top of Middle Pleistocene raised beach deposits (marine sands / MIS 9), overlain by a peat layer (deformed), then by massive chalky slope deposits affected by the precipitation of iron oxides (bands). This picture Illustrates the transition between Interglacial and glacial deposits in a long Quaternary section located on the Channel coast of Northern France (Sangatte).
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- Climate: Past, Present & Future (702)
- Geomorphology (1347)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (509)
Location
- Europe (3707)
- Western Europe (743)
- France (160)
- Exact location (1.7412 E, 50.9427 N)
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3543 × 2353 px;
image/jpeg; 9.4 MB
Camera:
Nikon D300
Taken on 15
October
2009
Submitted on 3 February 2015
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Pierre Antoine (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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