| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 | |
| Location | Suffolk |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TM 546 967[1] |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 5.5 hectares[1] |
| Notification | 1987[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Corton Cliffs is a 5.5-hectare (14-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Lowestoft in Suffolk.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
This is described by Natural England as a "nationally important" site, as it is the type locality for the Anglian glaciation around 450,000 years ago. The Anglian was the most extreme ice age of the Pleistocene epoch. The site displays the complete Anglian sequence and its relation to the preceding Cromerian stage.[4]
The site is a public beach.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Corton Cliffs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ↑ "Map of Corton Cliffs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ↑ "Corton (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Corton Cliffs citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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