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Mike Horne FGS

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“The Pebbles of the Ice Age Coast”

(a work in progress)

By Mike Horne FGS

Honorary Fellow, Department of Geography, Geology and Environment, University of Hull.

Honorary General Secretary of the Hull Geological Society.

(This was to be a lecture to the Geologists' Association at Burlington House in April 2002; the talk will now be given April 2023 on Zoom )

ABSTRACT

"Many of us start our interest in geology by collecting pebbles off the beach. There can be few better places that offer the variety of pebbles than the cliffs and beaches of the Holderness coast in Yorkshire. The Ice Ages have brought glacial erratics to the area from the Lake District, Scotland, Scandinavia, the Pennines, North Yorkshire and the then exposed bed of the North Sea.

 "The Boulder Committees of the 1890s reporting location of the erratics were recorded to the British Association are an early example of “Citizen Science”. I informally revived the East Yorkshire Boulder Committee for the centenary of the Hull Geological Society in 1988 and am now proposing to add some scientific precision with the establishment of a Type Erratic Collection."

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