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## Aim To investigate the molluscan successions from two Holocene tufa sequences in the English Midlands to establish whether similar patterns of colonization occur and to document how they relate to other successions reported from southern Britain and elsewhere. ## Location Courteenhall and Weston Favell near Northampton, English East Midlands. ## Methods Close serial sampling and quantitative analyses have allowed detailed faunal successions to be reconstructed for each site. Radiocarbon dating of __Cepaea__ shells by AMS has provided a chronology for each site. ## Results Remarkable similarities were found to exist between the two sites. The record from Courteenhall extended back to the end of the Devensian late‐glacial and continued until about 6000 yr BP. The sequence from Weston Favell was shorter, commencing at the beginning of the Holocene and ending about 7500 yr BP. Both successions show a progressive replacement of open country assemblages by those of woodland. At Courteenhall arctic‐alpine species, such as __Columella columella__ (Martens) and __Vertigo genesii__ (Gredler), were present in these early open‐ground communities. Both sites supported extremely rich (> 30 sp

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Author

R.A. Meyrick; R.C. Preece

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley; JSTOR (ISSN 0305-0270)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)