Sedimentation in an ice-contact subaqueous setting: The mid-Pleistocene ‘North Sea Drifts’ of Norfolk, U.K.

In East Anglia, the mid-Pleistocene ‘North Sea Drifts’ extend over some 1500 km2 of the coastal zone of North Norfolk. They are the oldest Pleistocene glacial sequences exposed in Britain, deposited during the Anglian Glaciation (ca. 450 ka BP?). Laminated and stratified pebbly mud (diamict) facies of the North Sea Drifts are widely regarded as the product of subglacial deposition below a terrestrial ice margin. In this paper these facies are …