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The Geography Department |
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Yorkshire Dales April 2006 |
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Ribblehead Viaduct and Scars
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Gordale and Gordale Beck April 2006 Littondale and Kilnsey Crag April 2006
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Looking towards the Ribblehead Viaduct with Gauber Limekiln Pasture Rocks. The centre photo was from close to the B6255.
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Gauber Limekiln Pasture and pavement with Ribblehead station beyond, and, on the right, towards Whernside. |
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A fine expanse of limestone pavement, with Ribblehead and Whernside in the backdrop. Surface vegetation, including stunted trees, was recolonising some areas of this surface, as seen on the right-hand shot. The photographs all show the dominant linear trends of the grykes. |
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The surface of the clints was far more friable than on the pavement above Malham and the surface was littered by clitter. |
Ferns growing in some profusion in a gryke. In places the vegetation had grown over the gryke completely and offering protection from the elements for the first time in 10,000 years? |
A sink hole just to the north of the pavement edge - Ribblehead can just be seen in the distance. |
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After shooting the Gauber rocks a 'target of opportunity' presented itself at Ribblehead, as overnight rain had swollen the stream to the point it flowed in a temporary channel, still grassed over. |
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The stream displays many fluvial features in miniature, from the point where it breaks its banks (left), to a temporary waterfall and, on the right, the permanent course just below the culvert under the B6255 near its junction with the B6479. |
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This photograph was actually taken below Ingleborough Cave, and can be used to illustrate the very uneven flow in upland streams.
starter Used on a screen students are invited to label fast, medium and slow areas of the stream. These areas can then be joined up as an isoline map. |
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