Glacial Landforms in the Lake District - Paper 1 Flashcards
Where is England’s highest mountainous region?
Scafell Pike in the Lake District, reaching 1,000 metres
Name 1 corrie like found here:
Red Tarn.
Name 1 arete found here:
Striding Edge.
Where are Red Tarn and Striding Edge found?
Just to the east of Lake Thirlmere.
Where is there a hanging valley found?
At Grisedale.
What does Red Tarn provide us with evidence of?
How rotational slip in a corrie eroded deep into the mountain side.
Why have the Lake District’s features softened overtime?
Due to rain and running water, rather than ice, now being the main influences on landscape development.
What are there many of in the Lake District?
Ribbon lakes.
What do the ribbon lakes here mark?
The position of over-deepened glacial troughs.
What lake gained notoriety and why?
Lake Coniston, when Donald Campbell was killed there when attempting to break a world water speed record in a high-powered boat.
Give an example of a settlement and where is it?
Keswick is situated on the floor of a glacial trough that the River Derwent now flows onto. It is a dry, flat section of the area’s wide and U-shaped valley floor.
Give 3 examples of relief features in the Lake District that are still visible:
-Fields in Borrowdale use terminal moraine as boundaries
-Swarms of drumlins can be seen in some places, such as Swindale in the north east Lake District
-Glacial erratics are strewn across low-lying areas
When were glacial erratics deposited by melting ice here?
Between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago.
Where have some glacial erratics may have travelled from?
Scotland
