There’s an immediacy to the study of the Quaternary (the last few million years) that is rather seductive. Most geology is (after John McPhee) studying ‘the former world’ but the Quaternary is close enough in time that it is still this world, capped by ice and full of familiar animals and human beings. We can… Continue reading Traces of glacial ice and water
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The edge of Cheshire. Part 3 – abandoned
This is the third part of a set of posts describing a walk I took across Cheshire. My goal was to find out everything that was interesting about the places I visited. Previously I’ve seen traces of apocalypse and traced the layers of the landscape. Dropping off the ridge, the wind suddenly stops and everything… Continue reading The edge of Cheshire. Part 3 – abandoned
The edge of Cheshire. Part 2 – layers of landscape
This is part 2 of a series of posts seeking to describe everything of interest on a walk along the edge of Cheshire, in England’s Peak District. Part 1 ended as I left Sutton Common, my mood lifting as the ground dropped. Descending the hill I passed a small house with a pigeon coop in the garden.… Continue reading The edge of Cheshire. Part 2 – layers of landscape
The edge of Cheshire. Part 1 – traces of apocalypse
Someone once said: “if you know enough Science, nothing is boring”. I love this idea, but I’m also intrigued by the geographical equivalent: no place is boring, if you know enough about it. Recently I went for a walk to try and find out if this is true. The walk started from my childhood home in… Continue reading The edge of Cheshire. Part 1 – traces of apocalypse