1st October 1999 - 30th September 2003
The Yorkshire Dales represents one of the classic landscapes of British geomorphology and contains some of the finest evidence of glacial erosion. Yet the landscape also includes a range of evidence for glacial deposition and meltwater processes. Despite the abundant terrestrial landform evidence, this area has received little consideration since the early part of the 20th Century with fieldwork studies restricted to a relatively few small areas (1,2,3). However, detailed dating and sedimentological studies within subterranean cave systems developed in the limestone rocks of northern England indicates a landscape which has evolved over at least 1 million years (4). My project will reappraise the terrestrial field evidence and chronology of Pleistocene events in the Yorkshire Dales at a variety of scales. Macroscale field-mapping to assess the range of landform evidence will be undertaken using a combination of aerial photography and satellite imagery. Once a broad classification of the field evidence exists, smaller scale studies will be undertaken using a combination of field mapping, clast lithological, sedimentological and geochemical analysis, to elucidate the nature of Pleistocene events.
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