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EDWARDS et al.1 have described and discussed new palynoloigical and fabric analyses which have made an important contribution to our understanding of the stratigraphical history of the unique buried soil at Teindland, first described and dated by Fitzpatrick2. Since 1962 detailed information relating to the distribution and periglacial modification of glacial deposits in the vicinity of Teindland has been gradually accumulated during the soil survey of the area represented on Sheet 85 (Rothes)3. Here we relate these field observations to the stratigraphy of the buried soil section at NJ 297570, and obtain a rather different interpretation of the nature of the ‘sandy till’ described by Edwards et al. as overlying the buried soil, and of the general stratigraphy of this site.
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ROMANS, J. Stratigraphy of buried soil at Teindland Forest, Scotland. Nature 268, 622–623 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268622a0
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