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Encyclopedia > Cromerian interglacial

The Cromerian interglacial is a name for an interglacial period which occurred between 700,000 and 450,000 years ago. The name is used by British geologists and archaeologists who named it after the site of West Runton near Cromer in the English county of Norfolk where deposits it created were first found.


It is a Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period and is analogous to the Aftonian interglacial in North America and the Günz-Mindel interglacial in the Alps. It was a period of warm climate and its deposits lie beneath those from the following Anglian glaciation


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Until recently it was generally believed that the Cromerian represented a single temperate event.
In the Midlands, during the Cromerian, instead of the Warwickshire Avon the long since disappeared Bytham River drained from the southwest Midlands and the Pennines through Warwickshire and parts of Leicestershire before turning south through mid-East Anglia and eventually eastwards into what is now the North Sea but was then dry land.
The faunas of the Cromerian Upper Freshwater Bed at West Runton (Norfolk coast) and the Sugworth interglacial deposits (near Oxford) contain three extinct Freshwater mollusc spp.
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