Accession No

4848

Brief Description

botanical wall chart showing climatic stages in middle and lower Pleistocene Norfolk, by S. Bishop, English, mid-20th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Bishop, S.

Class

natural history; earth sciences; prints

Earliest Date

1940

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

paper; cloth; plastic

Dimensions

breadth 1419mm; height 1018mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘M. and L. Pleistocene
Climatic Stages in Norfolk’ (top centre)
‘Ludham’ (top left)
‘N. Norfolk
Coast’ (top centre, below title)

Description Notes

Bottom right is a sketch map of the Norfolk coast, marking the location of Ludham.
The rest of the chart lists the climatic stages (Ludhamian, Thurnian, Antian, Baventian, Pastonian, Beestonian, Cromerian, Lowestoftian), with their qualifiers (cold, or temperate), and brackets them as belonging to Middle or to Lower Pleistocene, and to the ‘CFB series’ of to ‘Crag’.
Ref number on reverse.
Good condition.
Related to 4846 and 4850, which also deal with geology in Norfolk.

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