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Thursday, 20 August 2020

Penfro Till Formation -- nice name, pity about the evidence.....


It's strange that extremely dodgy material can find its way into official records and then be accepted as "established fact" even if there is no evidence in support of it.  A salutary lesson for all of us.......

I have found another reference to the "Penfro Till Formation" in this august publication.  

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, ENGINEERING GEOLOGY SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
Engineering Geology and Geomorphology of Glaciated and Periglaciated Terrains: Engineering Group Working Party Report by J. S. Griffiths and C. J. Martin
The Geological Society of London
Volume 28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/EGSP28
Publication date:
January 01, 2017

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2101/Engineering-Geology-and-Geomorphology-of-Glaciated

The official BGS citation or record is still unchanged, in spite of me complaining a few years ago that the two cited "partial type sections" at Llandre and West Angle Bay are effectively useless, never having been properly described.  At West Angle, there was a fundamental misunderstanding of the coastal exposure by Dixon and then DQ Bowen, and it appears that nobody can be bothered to correct the records.

This is a key post on this blog, in which I examine the evidence for the "pre-raised beach till deposit" at West Angle, and find it to be seriously defective:

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-west-angle-enigma-3-two-tills-or-one.html

See also:

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/02/penfro-till-formation.html

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/02/llandre-gravel-quarry-where-is-penfro.html

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/uk-quaternary-domains.html

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-curse-of-lithostratigraphy.html

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/penfro-formation-lexicon-correction.html

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/10/preseli-glacial-deposits.html

I am used to having a go at English Heritage and the archaeologocal establishment on this blog -- but it appears that the BGS and the geology establishment are not much better at either communicating or getting rid of myths dressed up as facts......




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