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Quaternary Newsletter

QN is published online three times a year (February, June and October). The newsletter contains news, articles, reports and information about upcoming meetings and events.

QN163 Front Cover. A hand-axe from Daking’s Pit, Essex (image credit: Ellery Littlewood). In this issue, Littlewood describes the role of lithics in the British Quaternary record and importance of lithic illustration.

Latest issue (QN 163)

The newsletter issue 163 includes articles and reports covering the topics:

  • The role of lithics in the British Quaternary record
  • Investigating peatland carbon stores in the Falkland Islands
  • Comment on ‘An igneous erratic at Limeslade, Gower & the glaciation of the British Channel’
  • Parallel Roads of Glen Roy
  • Exploring Polar Environments Day 2023
  • Glacial geomorphology & quaternary palaeoglaciology of SE Alberta & SW Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Unravelling complexities in the deglaciation of NE Ireland
  • Wetland deposits in Serra Do Gerês, Portugal
  • Toxic cyanobacterial metabolites in lake sediments
  • Radiocard results from Jarrow’s Anglo-Saxon monastic guest house
  • Obituary: Allan Straw
  • Obituary: Edward Derbyshire

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