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Friars Crag and Broom Hill Point – Derwent Water Glacial Deposition and Fluvioglacial Streamlined forms [Drumlin, Crag + tail, eskers + kames] [St Bees Kettle Hole – Egremont R

Friars Crag And Broom Hill Point – Derwent

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Erosional and depositional features at the north end of Derwent Water

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Friars Crag and Broom Hill Point – Derwent Water

Glacial Deposition and

Fluvioglacial Streamlined forms

[Drumlin, Crag + tail, eskers + kames]

[St Bees Kettle Hole – Egremont Rd]

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Location

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Crow Park Opposite Theatre, Keswick

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Blaencathra truncated spurs

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Stoss end of crag + tail looking south

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Resilient dolerite of plug – Friars Crag

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Truncated south end of larger drumlin east of the crag

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GlacialMaterial

Exposure viewed from lakeside looking north – removed by fluvial erosion

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Sectioned end of smaller drumlin

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General fluvial drainage [swarms]

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Spurs, drumlin + Catlehead

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Brockle Beck Delta – misfit unable to carry glacially eroded material

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View upstream + sub-angular load

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Stable Hills

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Steeper Stoss end - south

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Shallower Lee End

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Broom hill point

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Broom Hill point fragic exposure

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Five oaks Kame – sand + gravel

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At top

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Evidence of gravel through mole waste

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Esker running away to the SE

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Kettle hole viewed from the road

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Esker mounds

running away from the road

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Improved and unimproved Drumlin

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Slippage on bank side and poor drainage

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Parting shot – drumlin + geese

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Research –

Lakeland Rocks and Landscape A field guide

Cumberland Geological SocietyChapter 13 John Bordman

Classic Landforms of the Lake District [GA] John Boardman

Exploring Lakeland Rocks and Landscape - Cumberland

Geological Society [recently published and the main inspiration]

and thanks to Fred Lawton for his enthusiasm

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