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Examples of glacial boulder
glacial boulder
The local drift geology is mostly glacial boulder clay, as well as glacial sands and gravel.
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The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.
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The surface deposits comprise thick peat in the upper reaches, with glacial boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel in the lower parts.
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In south eastern Lancashire hushing was used to extract limestone from the glacial boulder clay so that it could be used to make lime for agriculture, mortar, plaster and limewash.
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The sundial over the door of the meeting house is dated 1753, while a curiosity in the garden is a huge glacial boulder, said to have been deposited from the Lake District following the last ice age.
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The Holderness landscape is dominated by deposits of till, boulder clays and glacial lake clays.
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When the glacier finally retreated they left deep deposits of boulder clay and glacial alluvium behind.
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Glacial gravels and boulder clays cover a great deal of the whole area to the north east of the county and the Upper Chalk itself has been disturbed at Reed and Barley by glaciation.
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Surrounding the town is deposits of boulder clay and glacial sand and gravel can be found to the north-west.
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