The Anglian Stage is the name used in the
British Isles
The British Isles are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner Hebrides, Inner and Outer Hebr ...
for a middle
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...
glaciation. It precedes the
Hoxnian Stage and follows the
Cromerian Stage in the British Isles. It correlates to
Marine Isotope Stage 12 (MIS 12),
which started about 478,000 years ago and ended about 424,000 years ago.
[ Lisiecki, L.E. (2005]
Ages of MIS boundaries.
Boston MA:Boston University
Description
The Anglian stage has often been correlated to the
Elsterian Stage of northern Continental Europe and the
Mindel Stage in the
Alps
The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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The Anglian was the most extreme
glaciation
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate be ...
during the last two million years. In Britain the ice sheet reached the Isles of Scilly and the Western Approaches, the furthest south the ice reached in any Pleistocene ice age. In the
south-east of England it diverted the
River Thames
The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, s ...
from its old course through the Vale of
St Albans south to its present position.
This stage had been equated to the Kansan Stage in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
. The stage names "Kansan", "Yarmouth", "Nebraskan" and "Aftonian" were later abandoned by North American
Quaternary
The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the ...
geologists and merged into the
Pre-Illinoian stage.
The Anglian Stage is now correlated with the period of time which includes the Pre-Illinoian B glaciation of North America.
See also
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Glacial period
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Last glacial period
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Timeline of glaciation
See also
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...
, which covers:
References
Further reading
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External links
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*Shotton, F.W., nd
''East Anglia and the English Midlands.''
The Shotton Project, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
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