The Glaciation of Western Edenside and Adjoining Areas and the Drumlins of Edenside and the Solway Basin

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This paper is divisible naturally into two parts. The first deals with the glaciation and deglaciation of western Edenside and adjoining areas, including the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Lake District as far north-west as Skiddaw. The work, which was commenced in 1923 as the result of problems which arose during the re-survey of the Brampton Geological Survey Sheet, has been facilitated by the fact that throughout I was in constant touch with Dr. F. M. Trotter, who was investigating the area east of the River Eden at the same time. At an early stage in the work it was found that the drumlins were parallel to the ice-fronts for considerable distances. This was entirely unexpected and led to the study of the drumlins of a much larger area; this study forms the subject of Part II. Its results are of more than local interest, and this, together with the difference in area dealt with and the complexity of the problem, justifies, it is hoped, its separation from the chronological sequence in Part I. The drumlins mapped by my colleagues, Messrs. E. E. L. Dixon, J. M. Maden, L. H. Tonks, and F. M. Trotter, in the Carlisle Sheet, and by Mr. T. Eastwood in parts of the Bewcastle and Cockermouth Sheets, together with a larger area east of the Eden mapped by Dr. Trotter, have been incorporated in Part II. To these investigators my thanks are due for permission to utilize the result of their mapping; for its

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