Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
About ten years ago, when studying the drifts of East Yorkshire, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh counted and roughly classified the larger boulders of Flamborough Head and other selected localities on the coast. This work has been continued by members of the Hull Geological Society, who have up to the present time recorded nearly four thousand boulders, of twelve inches and upwards in diameter. To avoid possible error, arising from the moving beach and other causes, only the boulders actually in place in the clay were noted, or such as had obviously recently fallen from the cliffs. The whole of the coastline from Spurn to Flamborough has been surveyed in this way, and also portions of the coast north of Flamborough as far as Saltburn. The lists thus prepared have been published from time to time by the Hull Geological Society and by the Erratic Blocks Committee of the British Association.
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page 17 note 2 Proc. Yorkshire Geol. and Polytech. Soc., vol. xiii, pt. 2, p. 211.Google Scholar
page 17 note 3 Ibid., vol. xi, pt. 3, p. 403.
page 17 note 4 Trans. Hull Geol. Soc., vol. iii, p. 7.Google Scholar
page 18 note 1 This group was not represented by any boulders of the requisite size in the cliff sections when this table was compiled, but several large boulders of Shap granite were seen in the gardens and about the town, which had probably been derived from the neighbouring drifts.
page 19 note 1 Proc. Yorkshire Geol. and Polytech. Soc., vol. xi, pt. 3, p. 409.Google Scholar
page 20 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. xlvii, p. 428.Google Scholar