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Erratic ice of the Black Country
This is an extract from the Black Country Geological Society (BCGS) Newsletter 210 December 2011. In many of the articles I have read about local glacial erratics, there arise the problems related to age; which glaciation was responsible for their transport and deposition. I thought that with a few days concentrated research I might throw [...]
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Tagged anglian, BCGS, Black Country, devensian, Erratic, geological maps, Geology, Glacial, Ice Age, Societies, till, wolstonian
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Erratic Anvil’s
This is an extract from the Black Country Geological Society newsletter number 210, December 2011. It investigates how glacial erratics have been used as a local resouce in the Black Country. Each area of the Black Country has always been associated with its own specialised trade and Bloxwich is no exception, having long been a [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Black Country, Erratic, Geology, Glacial, Granite, Places, Rocks
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