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1 BLAKENEY ESKER What is it and how did it form?
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2 What is Blakeney Esker? 3.5 km long ridge, up to 20 m high
Morston to Glandford, N Norfolk Consists of sand and gravel Quarried from WWII to early 1990s Glacial origins Please refer to the Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents available on the website for the further information required to present this PowerPoint presentation. The information in this presentation refers to the text in the document called “Blakeney Esker”. © NERC 2005, AM Jarrow

3 Internal composition Unit A chalky till
till is laid down by glacier ice - made of a mixture of gravel, sand, silt and clay material is picked up by glacier as it moves over the landscape giving geologists an idea of which direction the ice has moved in Please refer to the Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents available on the website for the further information required to present this PowerPoint presentation. The information in this presentation refers to the text in the document called “Blakeney Esker”.

4 Internal composition Unit B sand and gravel forms the ridge
gravel is mostly flint occasional lens of till (Unit A) pockets of yellowish orange sand round gravels due to erosion deposited in a high-energy system © NERC 2006, P Witney Please refer to the Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents available on the website for the further information required to present this PowerPoint presentation. The information in this presentation refers to the text in the document called “Blakeney Esker”.

5 How did it form? - 1 Ice advance - deposition of chalky till
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6 How did it form? - 2 Erosion of the Nye channels
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7 How did it form? - 3 Infilling of Nye channels with sand and gravel
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8 How did it form? - 4 Infilling of large tunnel at base of ice
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9 How did it form? – 4a Photo showing an esker forming in this way…
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10 How did it form? - 5 Deglaciation – removal of ice
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11 Blakeney Esker today Please refer to the Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents available on the website for the further information required to present this PowerPoint presentation. The information in this presentation refers to the text in the document called “Blakeney Esker”. © NERC 2006, P Witney

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