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III.—Eskdale Drift and its Bearing on Glacial Geology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. Mellard Reade
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The extraordinary abundance and almost universal distribution of fragments of Eskdale granite through the Drift of the North-West of England and part of North Wales is an impressive fact to the student of Glacial Geology. Mackintosh was the first to systematically trace this rock through the Drift and to note its origin. Since the time of this single-minded and patient investigator many other geologists have gone over the same ground and extended his observations, and all must bear witness to the accuracy of his facts.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1893 , pp. 9 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1893

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page 19 note 1 “There is abundant evidence too of a strange intermingling of foreign rocks in the till, which must have travelled from the coast of Cumberland (the italics are mine), the South of Scotland and the North of Ireland’ (Sketch of the Geology of the Isle of Man—Horne—Trans, of Edinburgh Geol. Soc. vol. ii. part iii. 1874).Google Scholar

page 19 note 2 The late Mr. Clifton Ward (Geology of the Northern Part of the English Lake District, Mem. Geol. Survey) considered there were evidences of very great submergence, but as I have not visited the localities he names, and am not clear as to the grounds on which he judged the Drifts he mentions to be Marine, I cannot use his observations.