Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
The Fenland is a buried basin behind a breached barrier. It is the "drowned" lower end of a valley system in which glacial, marine, estuarine, fluviatile, and subaerial deposits have gradually accumulated, while the area has been intermittently depressed until much of the Fenl...
+---------- High water (12' 6" above O.D.) | 12' 6" | 12' 6" +---------- Ordnance Datum 4' 0" | Silt and clay 16' 6" +---------- {| {+---------- Low water (6' 0" below O.D.) {|...
3. Part 3_Bos longifrons_ is the characteristic ox of the Fen Beds and never occurs in the Gravels. It is the breed which the Romans found here, and we dig up its bones almost wherever w...
1. Part 1The Fenland is a buried basin behind a breached barrier. It is the "drowned" lower end of a valley system in which glacial, marine, estuarine, fluviatile, and subaerial deposits...