Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.

Preface. 1. Background. 2. Prelude to the Pleistocene. 3. The Lower Pleistocene before the Pre-Pastonian. 4. The Cromer Forest-bed Formation and associated deposits. 5. The Anglian Cold Stage. 6. The Hoxnian Temperate Stage. 7. Post-Hoxnian and pre-Ipswichian events. 8. The Ipswichian Temperate Stage. 9. The Devensian Cold Stage. 10. The Flandrian Temperate Stage. 11. Epilogue. References. Index.