Erosional and depositional features at the north end of Derwent Water

1. 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]

2. Location

3. Crow Park Opposite Theatre,
Keswick

4. Blaencathra truncated spurs

6. Stoss end of crag + tail looking south

7. Resilient dolerite of plug – Friars Crag

8. Truncated south end of larger
drumlin east of the crag

9. Glacial
Material
Exposure viewed from
lakeside looking north
– removed by fluvial erosion

10. Sectioned end of smaller drumlin

11. General fluvial drainage [swarms]

12. Spurs, drumlin + Catlehead

13. Brockle Beck Delta – misfit unable
to carry glacially eroded material

14. View upstream + sub-angular load

15. Stable Hills

16. Steeper Stoss end - south

17. Shallower Lee End

18. Broom hill point

19. Broom Hill
point fragic
exposure

20. Five oaks Kame – sand + gravel

21. At top

22. Evidence of gravel through mole waste

23. Esker running away to the SE

24. Kettle hole viewed from the road

25. Esker
mounds
running away
from the road

26. Improved and unimproved Drumlin

27. Slippage on
bank side and
poor drainage

28. Parting shot – drumlin + geese

29. Research –
Lakeland Rocks and Landscape
A field guide
Cumberland Geological Society
Chapter 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

30. www.aberrantbee.com
images Mark Ollis
creative commons