Notes on the Fenland; with A Description of the Shippea Man
Author | : Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
ISBN-10 | : EAN:8596547313540 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Notes on the Fenland; with A Description of the Shippea Man written by Thomas McKenny Hughes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fenland, discussed in this book, is located in Cambridgeshire, England. It is a buried basin behind a breached barrier. It is the "drowned" lower end of a valley system in which glacial, marine, estuarine, fluviatile, and subaerial deposits have gradually accumulated, while the area has been intermittently depressed until much of the Fenland is now many feet below high water in the adjoining seas. The history of the denudation which produced the large geographical features upon which the character of the Fenland depends needs no long discussion, as there are numerous other districts where different stages of the same action can be observed. In the Weald for instance where the Darent and the Medway once ran off higher ground over the chalk to the north, cutting down their channels through what became the North Downs, as the more rapidly denuded beds on the south of the barrier were being lowered. The character of the basin is less clear in this case because it is cut off by the sea on the east, but the cutting down of the gorges pari passu with the denudation of the hinterland can be well seen.