Fern House Gravel Pit

Fern House Gravel Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SU883885
Interest	Geological
Area	1.3 hectares
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Fern House Gravel Pit is a 1.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Fern, near Bourne End in Buckinghamshire.^[1]^[2] It is also a Geological Conservation Review site.^[3]^[4]

This site exposes the Pleistocene Taplow Gravel formation, and may help to elucidate a poorly understood period in the history of the River Thames, between glacial Anglian stage, around 450,000 years ago, when the river was diverted south to its present course, and the warm Ipswichian around 120,000 years ago. Fossils found at the site include straight-tusked elephants and mammoths.^[4]^[5]

The site is on private land with no public access.

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References

↑ "Fern House Gravel Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
↑ "Map of Fern House Gravel Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
↑ "Fern House Gravel Pit (Quaternary of the Thames)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
1 2 Bridgland, D. R. (1994). "Fern House Gravel Pit". Quaternary of the Thames. Springer. ISBN 9789401107051.
↑ "Fern House Gravel Pit SSSI". Bucks Geology. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

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Coordinates: 51°35′18″N 0°43′36″W / 51.5884°N 0.7268°W / 51.5884; -0.7268

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