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Welcome to the Ice Age Coast

The Geology of Holderness Web Site

index :

The Ice Age in East Yorkshire (introduction)

Glacial Geology of Dimlington High Cliff

Holderness erratics

Holderness Stratigraphy

Lewis Penny Collection at the University of Hull

"Pebbles of the Ice Age Coast" by Mike Horne (pdf of lecture slides 2023)

Pictures of sites

Field Guides to the Ice Age Coast

• Skipsea Withow Mere

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1987-1991

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1992-2000

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2001-2004

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2005-2011

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2011-2021

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2022 onwards

Report on the Bisat Research Project 2014-2019

The distribution of indicator glacial erratics in eastern Yorkshire - Mike Horne

Quaternary Geology of the Holderness Coast: A Brief Overview - Tracy J. Marsters

Starting a geological collection

Starting a geological collection in Holderness

The Geological Code

The Tesco Erratic at Hornsea

Whin Sill erratic at Leven - C Howes & M Horne

Yorkshire Type Erratics Collection (at the University of Hull)

note on the Scientific Study of Galcial Erratics - by Mike Horne

The Bisat Research Project of the Hull Geological Society

Other articles about the Quaternary Geology of East Yorkshire

• Abstracts from the "The Pleistocene World" meeting 13th October 2001 - various authors

• Beaver hair found at Skipsea Withow SSSI - Mike Horne

• Coastal Erosion and the Lost Towns of Holderness - Gordon Ostler

• Holderness and Global Warming - Mike Horne 1991

• Local Heroes - Thomas Sheppard, J W Stather and East Riding Boulder Committee - M Horne 2007

• Shells collected from the Kelsey Hill Gravels at Keyingham - Stephen Whittaker

• Skipsea Withow Mere - Tracy J. Marsters

• The coastal exposures of Boulder Clay and erratics in Holderness - Stuart Jones

• The Geochemistry of the Red Clays of Holderness and their origin - Caroline Memczak et al.

• Bibliography of Holderness geology (including links to on-line articles)

Historic articles -

• An introduction to the geology of Holderness with special reference to the coast - K Fenton 1969

• Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1893-4

• Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1895

• Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee September 1896

• Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1897

• Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1898

• Reported by the Boulder Committee of the Hull Geological Society 1899

• Boulder Committee's Report 1900

• East Riding Boulder Committee's Reports [1901-4]

• East Riding Boulder Committee's Reports [1907-9]

• Kelsey Hill, Kirmington and other problems - G W Lamplugh

• Quartzite pebbles on the Wolds - J W Stather.

• The erosion of the Holderness coast - J R Boyle

Reports of the Yorkshire Boulder Committee and related articles (republished or extracted from The Naturalist with permission of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union.)

• Norwgian boulders in Holderness - Alfred Harker 1893

• The YNU at Withernsea in 1892

• The Yorkshire Boulder Committee and its fourth year's work 1892

• The Yorkshire Boulder Committee and its fifth year's work 1892

• The Yorkshire Boulder Committee and its sixth year's work 1893

(c) Mike Horne 1999 +  Hull Geological Society 2022

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