Polygonal Patterned Ground of Late Weichselian Age in the Area North and West of Wolverhampton, England

Abstract

A number of ice-wedge casts have been found penetrating Irish Sea till in the area north and west of Wolverhampton. Aerial examination of ice-wedge cast areas has revealed that the wedges form part of a network of extensive polygonal ground. The ice- wedge casts and patterned ground post-date the Late Devensian (Shotton and West 1969) (Late Weichselian) ice advance in the West Midlands and were probably formed prior to 12,500 years B.P.