The Glaciation of Teesdale, Weardale, and the Tyne Valley, and their Tributary Valleys

Abstract

My attention was first called to this District by reading the admirable paper by Mr. J. G. Goodchild on the distribution of the boulders of Shap Granite over the moors in the neighbourhood of the Vale of Eden¹. In this paper, Mr. Goodchild describes the track taken by the ice which carried the boulders of Shap Granite across the Valley of the Eden, and traces these boulders past Brough-under- Stainmoor to the summit of the Pennine Escarpment, at the head of Lunedale, Balderdale, and Deepdale. Here Mr. Goodchild leaves us, but the rocks have been traced by Prof. Lebour and other observers, down the lower part of Teesdale and out into the North Sea, and also down the Central Valley of Yorkshire as far as the city of York.