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Avery, B.W. , Bullock, P. , Catt, J.A. , Rayner, J.W. and Weir, A.H. 1982: Composition and origin of some brickearths on the Chiltern Hills, England. Catena 9, 153-74.

Baker, C.A. and Jones, D.K.C. 1980: Glaciation of the London Basin and its influence on the drainage pattern: a review and appraisal. In Jones, D.K.C. , editor, The shaping of southern England, London: Academic Press, 131-75.

Cheshire, D.A. 1981: A contribution towards a glacial stratigraphy of the Lower Lea Valley and its implications for the Anglian Thames. Quaternary Studies 1, 27-69.

Hey, R.W. 1965: Highly quartzose pebble gravels in the London Basin . Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 76, 403-20.

Horton, A. and Turner, C. 1983: Nettlebed. In Rose, J , editor, Diversion of the Thames, Cambridge : Quaternary Research Association, 63-68.

Green, C.P. and McGregor, D.F.M. 1978: Pleistocene gravel trains of the River Thames. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 89, 143-56.

King, W.B.R. and Oakley, K.P. 1936: The Pleistocene succession in the lower part of the Thames Valley. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 2, 52-76.

Rose, J. , Allen, P. and Hey, R.W. 1976: Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy in southern East Anglia . Nature 263, 492-94.

Shotton, F.W. , Goudie, A.S. , Briggs, D.J. and Osmaston, H.A. 1980: Cromerian interglacial deposits at Sugworth, near Oxford, England, and their relation to the Plateau Drift of the Cotswolds and the terrace sequence of the Upper and Middle Thames. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B289, 55-89.

Walder, P.S. 1967: The composition of the Thames gravels near Reading, Berkshire . Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 78, 107-19.

Wooldridge, S.W. and Linton, D.L. 1955: Structure, surface and drainage in southeast England . London: George Philip.