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The Langdale axe industry (or factory) is the name given by archaeologists to a Neolithic centre of specialised stone tool production in the Great Langdale area of the English Lake District. [1] The existence of the site, which dates from around 4,000–3,500 BC, [ 2 ] was suggested by chance discoveries in the 1930s.
The Langdale Pikes and the Langdale Boulders, Great Langdale. Among the best-known features of Great Langdale are the Langdale Pikes, a group of peaks on the northern side of the dale. From below, they appear as a sharp rocky ridge, though they are precipitous only on their southern side; to the north, the land sweeps gently to High Raise , the ...
Blea Tarn is situated in a small hanging valley between Great Langdale and Little Langdale. The tarn itself was shaped by glacial ice moving over the col from nearby Great Langdale, but the ice was cut off as the glacier shrank, leaving "moraines very different from those at the head of the main valley". [ 25 ]
Big Rock. The Foothills Erratics Train is a 580 miles (930 km) long, narrow (0.62 miles (1.00 km) to 13.7 miles (22.0 km) wide), linear scatter of thousands of typically angular boulders of distinctive quartzite and pebbly quartzite that lie on the surface of a generally north-south strip of the Canadian Prairies.
Name and description Height County Image Airport Boulder, at Martha Lake Airport Park in Martha Lake, said to be "one of the largest glacial erratic boulders in urban King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties", [9] is approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) long on its longest axis and about twice a man's height.
Glacial erratic boulders of King County are large glacial erratic boulders of rock which were moved into King County, Washington by glacial action during previous ice ages.. The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2]
Large boulder lBo >630 >24.8031 Boulder Bo 200–630 7.8740–24.803 Cobble Co 63–200 2.4803–7.8740 Coarse soil Gravel Coarse gravel cGr 20–63 0.78740–2.4803
Langdale Pike may refer to: Langdale Pike (character) , a fictional character in The Adventure of the Three Gables , a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Langdale Pikes , a group of peaks in the Lake District