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GLACIAL EVIDENCES NEAR SCUNTHORPE. 



ARCHIBALD C. DALTON. 



It is recorded that ' between Messingham and the Humber 

 the only direct evidence of Glacial action is furnished by a 

 small patch of Grey Boulder Clay with flint fragments ... on 

 the road from Frodingham to Burton, east of Flixbro'.'* 



In North Lincolnshire there are three parallel escarpments 



Map of the Scunthorpe]District. 



which run nearly due north and south, viz. : — the Liassic, 

 Oolitic and Cretaceous. 



In the Ancholme Valley large areas of Boulder Clay have 

 been mapped by the Geological Survey ; but, with the exception 

 of the small patch of boulder clay referred to above, none has 

 been recorded for the Trent Valley. 



* Geological Survey mem. sheet. 86, p. 134. 

 igio Oct. I. 



