Diamicton from the Vale of Pickering and Tabular Hills, north-east Yorkshire: evidence for a Middle Pleistocene (MIS 8) glaciation?

Powell, J. H.; Ford, Jonathan R.; Riding, James B.

doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.09.002

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“…3B) with Powell et al . (2016) suggesting an MIS 8 age. The preservation of Devensian periglacial features in regolith (Dimbleby, 1952; King, 1965; Edwards, 1978; Franks, 1987) on the North York Moors and Tabular Hills and MIS 3 faunal remains at Kirkdale Cave (McFarlane and Ford, 1998) suggest that ice did not overtop the North York Moors during MIS 2.…”

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“…The presence of higher-level tills capping interfluve areas demonstrate that parts of the Vale of Pickering were glaciated before the Late Devensian (Fox-Strangways, 1880, 1881; Fig. 3B) with Powell et al (2016) suggesting an MIS 8 age. The preservation of Devensian periglacial features in regolith (Dimbleby, 1952;King, 1965;Edwards, 1978;Franks, 1987) on the North York Moors and Tabular Hills and MIS 3 faunal remains at Kirkdale Cave (McFarlane and Ford, 1998) suggest that ice did not overtop the North York Moors during MIS 2.…”

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“…Alternatively, for a 70-m lake to form the Kirkham Gap and Malton Embayment would have to have been completely blocked (or not incised). Powell et al (2016) suggest that MIS 8 glaciation was limited along the margins of the Vale of York, making it unlikely that a 70-m Palaeolake Pickering existed at that stage. Tentative dating near the Wykeham moraine has recently proposed an MIS 6 stage ice incursion into the Vale of Pickering from the east (Fairburn and Bateman, 2021).…”

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New geomorphic evidence for a multi‐stage proglacial lake associated with the former British–Irish Ice Sheet in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, UK

Eddey

Bateman

Livingstone

et al. 2022

J Quaternary Science

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Former proglacial lakes provide insight into the temporal and spatial evolution of past ice sheet dynamics and the glaciohydrological systems associated with them. Glacial Lake Pickering was a proglacial lake in North Yorkshire impounded by the British-Irish Ice Sheet. However, geomorphic evidence for its existence and extent is weak and contested. This paper presents, for the first time, systematic mapping of geomorphic features from high-resolution (50 cm to 5 m) digital terrain model data and undertakes palaeogeographical reconstructions to establish Palaeolake Pickering's extent and levels. Results show only weak evidence for a 70-m lake. This and the fact that the present landscape configuration is unable to impound such a large lake suggests that it either did not exist or is much older and that considerable landscape erosion has since taken place. There is good geomorphological evidence to support lake levels between 45 and 20 m. The new palaeogeographical reconstructions show these lake levels were initially controlled by the balance between the North Sea and the Vale of York Lobes of the British-Irish Ice Sheet with lower and later levels impounded by the Filey moraine. A multi-stage Palaeolake Pickering with various extents and levels possibly spanning more than one glacial period has implications for other British-Irish Ice Sheet palaeolake extents reconstructed only from undifferentiated lacustrine sediments and their maximal elevation. The existence of an extensive multi-phase proglacial Palaeolake Pickering along with other similar ones in Eastern England would have impacted mass loss and frontal dynamics via subaqueous melting and iceberg calving, potentially playing a role in controlling the dynamic behaviour of the North Sea Lobe.

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New geomorphic evidence for a multi‐stage proglacial lake associated with the former British–Irish Ice Sheet in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, UK

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Livingstone

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“…If palynomorphs extracted from a till are from distinctive lithostratigraphical units, as determined from biostratigraphy, the flow path of the glacier can be reconstructed (e.g. Lee et al, 2002;Davies et al, 2009;Powell et al, 2016;Rose et al, 2021 for Quaternary glacigenic sediments). Similarly, Harding et al (2004) used dinoflagellate cysts and other marine palynomorphs to help determine the provenance of flint artefacts from the UK.…”

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The forensic utility of reworked geological materials in soil

Riding

2021

Forensic Science International

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“…The Tabular Hills, which dip very gradually towards the Vale of Pickering, have a limestone escarpment at their northern and western edge and so form a discrete surface geological unit. As the central and southern North York Moors was ice-free during the last glaciation (Clark, Gibbard, and Rose 2004;Evans, Clark, and Mitchell 2005), there are no significant glacigenic deposits on these areas, although Powell, Ford, and Riding (2016) have suggested there might be patches of diamicton from an earlier glaciation. In places the Tabular Hills have a veneer of sands and clays probably derived from fluvial redistribution of reworked earlier sediments.…”

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Bronze Age and Later Vegetation History on the Limestone Tabular Hills of North-East Yorkshire, UK: Pollen Diagrams from Dalby Forest

Simmons

Innés

Appleyard³

et al. 2021

Yorkshire Archaeological Journal

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This paper presents the results of palynological investigations on the limestone Tabular Hills of the North York Moors in north-east England. These limestone areas have the highest concentration of post-Mesolithic archaeological sites in this upland but because of the geology and paucity of suitable organic deposits have had almost no palynological research with which to assess the land-use history of these cultures, nor their impacts on the vegetation. This lack of palaeoecological information from the Tabular Hills has been addressed, so that the area's environmental history can be added to that of the rest of the North York Moors, which is relatively well known. Three pollen profiles have been examined, Yondhead Rigg providing an early Bronze Age to post-Medieval record, Seavy Slack providing a late Iron Age to post-Medieval record, and Dargate Dykes providing a late Medieval to modern record. The combined vegetation history from the three sites indicates a similar story to that from elsewhere on the Moors, with substantial forest disturbance in Bronze Age and Iron Age times, with significant woodland regeneration after each, but with the first main forest clearance phase for agriculture occurring during the Romano-British period, followed by early Medieval woodland regeneration, then extensive clearance in the later Medieval period for some arable cultivation and extensive animal husbandry on the rich calcareous grassland. In each agricultural phase the scale and intensity of disturbance seems to have been greater in these fertile limestone areas than in the rest of the Moors, with their poorer, more acidic soils, but still with an emphasis on stock-rearing and less extensive cultivation. The results will allow a more comprehensive landscape history of the North York Moors to be understood for later prehistory and more recent times.

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Diamicton from the Vale of Pickering and Tabular Hills, north-east Yorkshire: evidence for a Middle Pleistocene (MIS 8) glaciation?

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

New geomorphic evidence for a multi‐stage proglacial lake associated with the former British–Irish Ice Sheet in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, UK

New geomorphic evidence for a multi‐stage proglacial lake associated with the former British–Irish Ice Sheet in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, UK

The forensic utility of reworked geological materials in soil

Bronze Age and Later Vegetation History on the Limestone Tabular Hills of North-East Yorkshire, UK: Pollen Diagrams from Dalby Forest

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