Abstract
The most comprehensive records of Late Quaternary coastal environmental change in eastern England and eastern Scotland are obtained from the intercalated semi-terrestrial peats and intertidal silts, clays and sands that have accumulated in estuaries and coastal lowlands. Radiocarbon dated sea-level index points from sites in north-east England are evaluated with reference to, first, a conceptual model of coastal sedimentary environments and, second, a model of pollen assemblages in Holocene coastal environments. Analysis of these new data indicates differential crustal uplift within north-east England of ca. 0.2 mm/yr for the last 4000 to 5000 radiocarbon years. This pattern of uplift is consistent with models of Holocene crustal deformation in Scotland and England. The uplift is attributable to the combined effects of ice unloading and water loading.
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