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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-31016-1 - The Periglaciation of Great Britain Colin K. Ballantyne and Charles Harris Index More information Index Abbot's Salford, Worcestershire, 53 aufeis, see also icings, 70 bimodal flows, see ground-ice slumps Aberayron, Dyfed, Wales, 104 Australia, 179, 261 Binbrook, Lincolnshire, 157 Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales, 128, 206, 207 Austrian Alps, 225 Bingham flow, 231 Acheulian hand axes, see hand axes avalanche activity, 219-22; 226-30, 236, 244, Birling Gap, Sussex, 102, 108 Achnasheen, NW Scotland, 233 295, 297 Black Mountain, Dyfed, 231, 234 active layer, see also seasonal thawing, 5, 27, avalanche boulder tongues, 220, 226, 295 Black Rock, Brighton, Sussex, 125, 126 35,41,42,114-18, 140,175 avalanche cones, 220, 226 Black Top Creek, EUesmere Island, Canada, 144 detachment slides, 115, 118, 276 avalanche impact pits, 226 Black Tors, Dartmoor, 178 glides, 118 avalanche landforms, 7, 8 blockfields, 8, 164-9, 171, 173-6, 180, 183, processes, 85-102 avalanche tongues, 227, 228 185,187,188,193,194 thickness, 107-9,281-2 avalanche-modified talus, 226-30 allochthonous, 173 Adwick-Le-Street, Yorkshire, 45, 53 Avon, 132, 134, 138, 139 autochthonous, 174, 182 aeolian, processes, see also wind action, 141, Avon Valley, 138 blockslopes, 173-6, 187, 190 155-60,161,255-67,296 Axe Valley, Devon, 103, 147 blockstreams, 173 aeolian sediments, see also loess and Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, 124, 168 coversands, 55, 96, 146-7, 150, 168, Badwell Ash, Essex, 101 Bohemian Highlands, 181 169, 257-60 Baffin Island, 103, 143,219 Boreal period, 21, 22 Afon Cerniog, Central Wales, 212 Bain, River, Lincolnshire, 49, 148 Boulder Creek, Yukon, Canada, 144 air thawing index, 85 Balderton Terrace, 56-7 boulder lobes, 189, 190, 208-14, 218 alas, 72, 73 Ballaugh, Isle of Man, 79, 83 boulder sheets, 187, 190, 208-14, 218 Alaska, 40, 41, 43, 67, 72-3, 90, 97, 118, 141, Banks Island, NWT, Canada, 42, 49, 65, 115, Bournemouth, Hampshire, 279 142, 143, 155, 165, 246,247,249,275, 118,120,146,155 Bowland Fells, NW England, 234 277, 280 Baosbheinn, NW Scotland, 232, 237, 240, 242 Bowscale Fell, Lake District, 261 alluvial fans, 7, 250-1, 252 Barham Sands and Gravels, 12 Boxgrove, Sussex, 158 alpine climates, 27, 28 Barham Structure Soil, 9, 52, 100, 108, 112, 149 Braeriach, Cairngorms, 23 alpine tundra, 28, 120 Barrow, Northamptonshire, 106, 108 braid bars, 145-6, 152 alpine zone, 29 Baston, Lincolnshire, 48, 49 braided rivers, 103, 144-52 Alps, 230, 242, 243 Bath, Avon, 132, 133, 138, 139 breccia, 121 Am Faochagach, northern Scotland, 185 Bealach Dubh, Grampians, 227 Breckland, Cambridgeshire, 97, 159, 160, 201, amino acid dating, 11, 14, 57 Beazley End, Essex, 112 289 An Teallach, NW Highlands, 166, 168, 170-3, Beckford, Worcestershire, 61, 278 Brecon Beacons, 18, 110, 113, 252 175-7, 188-9, 210, 222, 224-6, 231, bedded growan, 252 Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, 138 232-5, 239, 248-50, 256-60, 262-6, Beenham Grange Terraces, 150, 283 Brent Tor, Dartmoor, 79, 82, 83 294, 296 Beeston, Norfolk, 53 brickearth, 125, 156 Andes, 27 Beestonian stage, 53, 100 Bridestones, Yorkshire, 178 angle of repose, 219 beetle assemblages, see coleoptera Brighton, Sussex, 125 model of talus accumulation, 220 Beetley, Norfolk, 15 Brimham Rocks, Pennines, 178 Anglesey, north Wales, 17, 82, 106, 108, 110, Beinn Alligin, NW Scotland, 243 Brimpton, Berkshire, 15 157 Beinn an Fhurain, Assynt, 194, 195 Brimpton Interstadial, 12, 15 Anglian Glacial Stage, 11-15, 24-5, 53^, 100 Beinn an Lochain, Grampians, 243 Brinziehill, Kincardineshire, Scotland, 128 Anglian ice sheet, 54, 124 Beinn Mheadhoin, Cairngorms, 178, 181 Brittany, 279 Anglian till, 11-12, 52, 54, 101, 148 Belgium 73 Broad Law, Southern Uplands of Scotland, 172, Angus, Scotland, 6, 16 Believer Quarry, Dartmoor, 130 176, 177, 184 Antarctica, 29, 42, 43, 44, 117 Ben Alder, Grampians, 227 Broadstairs, Kent, 102 Aonach Beag, Grampians, 227 Ben Arkle, northern Scotland, 215, 256, 257 Brook, Kent, 153^ Applecross Peninsula, Scottish Highlands, 170 Ben Avon, Cairngorms, 178 Brooks Range, Alaska, 67 arctic nival river regimes, 141-3 Ben Lawers, NE Scotland, 184, 214 Broomfield, Essex, 52, 101 arctic tundra, 28, 120 Ben Loyal, Sutherland, 178, 181 Broughton, Kent, 132 Ardessie Burn, An Teallach, northern Scotland, Ben More, Mull, 216 Buchan, NE Scotland, 16, 60-1 173, 233, 254 Ben Nevis, Scottish Highlands, 22, 23, 24, 214, Buckinghamshire, 14, 102, 288 Ardnamurchan, western Scotland, 268, 269 227,229,231,237 Bury Hill, Staffordshire, 133 Argyle Stone, Cairngorms, 181 Ben Rinnes, NE Scotland, 181 Arran, 167 Ben Wyvis, Scottish Highlands, 22, 166, 167, Cadeby, Leicestershire, 106, 108 Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 231 175, 176, 177, 187, 188, 189, 200-3, Cader Idris, Wales, 18, 222, 252 Assynt, Scottish Highlands, 193 210, 211, 213, 216, 217, 248-50, 261, Cairngorm Mountains, 5, 16, 20^, 166, 168, Aston Flamville, Leicestershire, 106 294 169, 171-3, 178, 179, 181, 188, 191, asymmetrical valleys, 143, 154-5 Bennachie, NE Scotland, 181 193, 194, 196, 197, 208, 209, 210, 213, Atherfield Clay, 138 Berkshire, 15, 97, 102, 151-2, 288 214, 215, 221, 224, 227, 228, 231, 232, Atlantic period, 21,22 Berkshire Downs, 153 233, 235, 237-9, 242-3, 245, 250, 252, Atterberg Limits, 113, 129, 134-6, 207, 218 bevelled cliffs, 137 254-7, 260, 261, 290, 291, 294 325 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-31016-1 - The Periglaciation of Great Britain Colin K. Ballantyne and Charles Harris Index More information 326 INDEX Cairnsmore of Fleet, Southern Uplands of coombe rock, 4, 6, 55, 74, 125-7, 153 57-63, 74-83, 97, 98, 101, 112, 131, Scotland, 168 coombes, 152-5 147, 148, 150, 180, 248-9 Caistor St Edmunds, Essex, 112 corestones, 171, 173, 179, 180, 181 Devensian till, 50, 103, 128 Caithness, 14, 16, 17, 24, 166, 169, 178, 186, Cornwall, 7, 61, 105, 121, 122-5, 157, 168, 280, Devil's Point, Cairngorms, 238, 239, 240 260, 261 284 Devon, 5-8, 79, 82, 83, 103, 104, 110, 120, 123, Cam Loch, Sutherland, 251 Cornwallis Island, NWT, Canada, 143, 250 124, 125, 127, 129, 130,147,157,168, Cam Valley, Essex, 134 Corton, Suffolk, 11, 12,54 169, 171, 173, 178-81, 199, 246-7, 252, cambering, 5, 133, 137-9, 180, 276 Corton Beds, 54 280 Cambridgeshire, 5, 47, 48, 81-2, 83, 102, 148 Costorphine, near Edinburgh, 251 Devon Island, NWT, Canada, 120, 143 Canada, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 49, Cotentin Peninsula, France, 279 diapiric injection, 91, 93, 102 65, 103, 115, 118, 120, 143, 146, 201, Cotswold Hills, 132, 137, 138, 139, 288 Dietrich River, Alaska, 142 267 coversands, see also aeolian sediments, 6, 7, 93, differential frost heave, 94, 96 Canadian Rocky Mountains, 115 155,156,157, 158-60, 276, 288 differential frost susceptibility, 93 capillary theory of frost weathering, 164 Cox Tor, Dartmoor, 199, 246-7 differential weathering, 178, 179 Cardigan Bay, Wales, 104, 128 crags, 121 Dimlington Stadial, 11, 12, 15-17, 50, 61, 62, Cam Gorm, Ben Wyvis, Scottish Highlands, Creag Meagaidh, Scottish Highlands, 210 75, 77, 81-3, 102-3, 110, 128, 132, 136, 167, 174, 175 creep, see also frost creep, 83, 295 150, 158, 195, 208, 250, 253, 275, Carneddau Mountains, Snowdonia, 196, 198, Cromer Till, 11,54 279-86 210,216 Cromerian Interglacial Stage, 12, 53, 54 discrete rockfall model of talus accumulation, Carpathian Mountains, 174 crop marks, 45, 53 220 Carsington, Derbyshire, 133 Cross Fell, western Pennines, 23 Dix's Pit, Oxfordshire, 49 Cerniog River Valley, Central Wales, 212 Crouch, River, Essex, 55 Docking Common, Norfolk, 102, 103 chalkland dry valleys, see dry valleys cryogenic mounds, 68-70 Dorset, 127, 134, 135, 154 chalkland patterned ground, 96-8 cryohydrostatic pressures, 94 drainage density 151 chalkland solutional weathering, 126 cryopediments, 137, 154, 247 Druidstone, Pembrokeshire, 125 Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, 178 cryostatic pressure, 91 Drumochter Hills, Grampians, 200, 202, 210, Chelford, Cheshire, 14, 60 cry otic, 31 214, 215, 216, 217, 294 Chelford Interstadial, 11, 12, 14, 15, 60 cryoturbation, 29, 30, 47, 79, 85-109, 112, 148, Drumochter Pass, Grampians, 231 Chelford Sands Formation, 60, 147 160, 200, 203, 278 dry avalanching, 219 Cheltenham Sands Formation, 278 amplitude of, 99 dry valleys, 125-7, 151, 153-5 chemical weathering, 165, 166, 172-3, 250, 294 structures, see also involutions, 8, 49, 94-6, dunes, 159 Cheshire, 14, 59, 60, 61, 147, 286 115,158,276,281-2,297 Durham County, 157 Chettisham Fen, Cambridgeshire, 81 Cuillin Hills, Skye, 223, 224 Dyfed, Wales, 61, 104, 122, 128, 206, 231, 234 Cheviot Hills, 16, 113, 124, 168, 178, 181, 205, Cumbria, 17, 74, 79, 80, 83, 248 206, 207, 246 Current Valley, Worcestershire, 278 Eagle Rock, Pennines, 179 Chichester, Sussex, 125 cutans, 108, 298 Early Devensian, 12, 14-15, 24, 58-61, 101, Chiltern Hills, 97, 127, 154 Cwm Du, mid Wales, 246 103, 147, 148, 158, 298 China, 141 Cwm Tinwen, mid Wales, 246 Early Pleistocene deposits, 148 Churchdown Hill, Gloucestershire, 130 earth hummocks, 7, 90-2, 191, 199-203 Chwefru Valley, mid Wales, 253 Dalmulzie, SE Grampians, 238, 239, 240 East Anglia, 11, 51-2, 58, 83, 96-7, 108, 134, Clatford Bottom, Wiltshire, 126, 127 Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, 106, 108 159, 160,279, 285, 288, 289 clay minerals, 165, 173 Dartmoor, 5, 7, 8, 79, 82, 104, 110, 120, 127, eboulis ordonnees, 252 clay-rich head, 130-5, 276 129, 130, 168, 169, 171, 173, 178-81, Edale, Vale of, Derbyshire, 122, 206 clay-with-flints, 126 199,209, 213, 246-7, 252, 280 Edinburgh, 223, 251 Cledan River Valley,
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    Scottish Natural Heritage FACTS AND FIGURES 1996-97 Working with Scotland’s people to care for our natural heritage PREFACE SNH Facts and Figures 1996/97, contains a range of useful facts and statistics about SNH’s work and is a companion publication to our Annual Report. SNH came into being on 1 April 1992, and in our first Annual Report we published an inventory of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). After an interval of five years it is appropriate to now update this inventory. We have also provided a complete Scottish listing of National Nature Reserves, National Scenic Areas, European sites and certain other types of designation. As well as the information on sites, we have also published information on our successes during 1996/97 including partnership funding of projects, details of grants awarded, licences issued and our performance in meeting our standards for customer care. We have also published a full list of management agreements concluded in 1996/97. We hope that those consulting this document will find it a useful and valuable record. We are committed to being open in the way we work and if there is additional information you require, contact us, either at any local offices (detailed in the telephone directory) or through our Public Affairs Branch, Scottish Natural Heritage, 12 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 2AS. Telephone: 0131 447 4784 Fax: 0131 446 2277. Table of Contents LICENCES 1 Licences protecting wildlife issued from 1 April 1996 to 31 March 1997 under various Acts of Parliament 1 CONSULTATIONS 2 Natural
  • The Pinnacle Club Journal

    The Pinnacle Club Journal

    © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved The Pinnacle Club Journal No. 25 2000-2002 © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved THE PINNACLE CLUB JOURNAL 2000 - 2002 No. 25 Edited by Julie Carter Above Design for the Club bookplate by Miss J Tebbutt, 1947 THE PINNACLE CLUB JOURNAL 2000-2002 © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved The Pinnacle Club Founded 1921 Officers and Committee - 2002 PRESIDENT Sally Keir Maes yr Haf, 8 Gorlan, Conwy LL328RS VICE PRESIDENT Cathy Woodhead HON. SECRETARY Yvonne Colwell HON. TREASURER Jane Haskins HON. MEETS SECRETRY Alison Martindale HON. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Kath Davies HON. HUT SECRETARY Mandy Glanvill HON. LIBRARIAN Lyn Dodds HON. EDITOR Julie Carter HON. AUDITOR Elaine McCulloch COMMITTEE MEMBERS Tracey Purchase Sheri Waddell Rachel Barker Sue Logan Alison Cairns (Minutes Secretary) Pamela Holt (Dinner Organiser) Janet Vince (Hut Booking Secretary Shirley Angell (Archivist) THE PINNACLE CLUB JOURNAL 2000-2002 © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved Contents Rambling in Snowdonia Margaret Clennett 5 A Memsahib in Sikkim Helen Jones 8 Untrod Glaciers in the Apolobamba Jo Newton 14 2001 A Holiday Odyssey Annabelle Barker 18 Summer shower Yvonne Colwell 23 Climbing and trekking in Russia Pamela Holt 24 The Bothy evening that wasn't DeeGaffney 30 Climbing the Corbetts Gill Nisbet 34 Strictly Hormones Fred Reynolds 39 Iceburgs Rosemary Scott 45 Wolves, Waterfalls and Wadis Fern Levy 49 My Penultimate Munros Julia Banks 54 Cowboy Country Judith Brown 59 Cuillin Ridge, May 2001 Jane