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13-452: Corton may refer to: Places [ edit ] Corton Formation , a geologic formation in Suffolk and Norfolk, England Corton, Suffolk , England, a village Corton, Wiltshire , England, a village Corton, West Virginia , an unincorporated community Cuisine [ edit ] Corton (wine) , a French wine Corton (meat spread) ,

26-601: A Québécois meat spread Corton (restaurant) , a New York City restaurant See also [ edit ] Corton Denham Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Corton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corton&oldid=1221628409 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

39-514: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bytham River The Bytham River is said to have been one of the great Pleistocene rivers of central and eastern England until it was destroyed by the advancing ice sheets of the Anglian Glaciation around 450,000 years ago. The river is named after Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire , where the watercourse is said to have crossed

52-413: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Corton Formation The formation comprises two stratigraphic facies , an upper thicker fine to medium sand which becomes a pebbly sand towards the base (around Lowestoft , the pebbly sands may be more extensive), and a lower till comprising very silty sandy clay or clayey sand. The formation

65-1015: Is named after Corton , Suffolk , the type locality for the Anglian Stage of the Pleistocene in Britain. The formation is overlain by the Lowestoft Formation. The till of the Corton Formation, known locally as the Happisburgh Till and the Corton Till, was formerly believed to have been deposited by a Scandinavian ice sheet of Anglian age. However recent investigations indicate deposition by an ice sheet which flowed southwards into north-east East Anglia from central and southern Scotland , eroding and transporting materials derived from outcrops in these areas and from eastern England and

78-944: The North Sea . Britain was then joined to the Continent by a land bridge and the Bytham joined the North Sea somewhere beyond the northern end of that land bridge. Chris Stringer writes: "As the Bytham River slowed past Warren Hill [in Norfolk] towards its delta on what is now the East Anglian coast, it deposited sediments on the edge of the huge north-facing bay, into which the Rhine also flowed. The sites of Norton Subcourse in Norfolk and nearby Pakefield, just over

91-654: The Lincolnshire limestone hills in a valley now buried by Anglian till . West of that location, its catchment area included much of Warwickshire , Leicestershire and Derbyshire . East of that location, the Bytham flowed across what is now the Fen Basin to Shouldham, then southward to Mildenhall, then eastward across East Anglia . It met the Proto-Thames in a delta near what is now the Norfolk/Suffolk border and flowed into

104-401: The border in Suffolk, were probably both related to the Bytham, and they record a time when the climate of Britain was balmy and Mediterranean, and this part of East Anglia was a fertile estuarine plain." The Anglian ice advance which followed, with its ice front reaching at least as far south as London and Birmingham, overrode all or most of the Bytham's catchment area. The course of the river

117-646: The deposits of the Bytham River that are overlain by Anglian material (, discussed online in ). The sands of the Corton Formation have been interpreted as being deposited in an ice-dammed lake, possibly the one which overflowed to breach the chalk ridge of the Weald-Artois Anticline and open the English Channel . This article about a specific stratigraphic formation in the United Kingdom

130-493: The western margins of the southern North Sea Basin . This indicates that the long-held assumption that the tills of the Corton Formation were deposited by a Scandinavian ice sheet is erroneous and that they were instead deposited by Scottish ice. More recently still it has been suggested that the Happisburgh Till may be in fact be pre-Anglian. This is from indirect evidence, namely the discovery of clasts of re-worked till in

143-458: Was also modified by glaciation, but in that case by the later Wolstonian ice advance. Those western and eastern sections never linked up to form a "Bytham river". Another study asserted that the refutation of the existence of the Bytham is itself "contradicted by an abundance of evidence", and that sand and gravel deposits of the proto-Soar in Leicestershire could "only have been emplaced by

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156-531: Was indeed part of a pre-Anglian watercourse, but one which came from the north-west, through the Ancaster Gap in Lincolnshire. That "proto- Trent " river was severely disrupted by the Anglian glaciation. It has further been suggested that a western section of the supposed "Bytham river" was part of a post -Anglian watercourse which flowed SW-NE from Warwickshire to the North Sea via The Wash . That "proto- Soar " river

169-505: Was severed in the region of the Fen Basin. Following the ice retreat, the Bytham's remaining western section became part of the Trent catchment, and its remaining eastern section became a precursor of the Waveney river, running across East Anglia. In the mid-2010s the existence of the Bytham was disputed. It was argued that an eastern section of the supposed river, flowing across central East Anglia,

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