GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF THE EDEN VALLEY ETC. 55 



3. The Glacial Phenomena, of the Eden Valley and the Western- 

 Part of the Yorkshire-Dale District. By J. G. Goodchild, 

 Esq., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. (Read 

 June 24, 1874.) 



(Communicated by H. W. Bristow, Esq., F.R.S., with the permission of Prof. 

 Ramsay, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United 

 Kingdom.) 



[Plate II.] 



In the following paper it is proposed to take up the investigation of 

 the North-Anglian glacial phenomena in the district north of that 

 treated of by Mr. Tiddeman in his paper on the Evidence for the 

 Ice Sheet in North Lancashire, &c.*, to carry on the observations 

 northward among the Carboniferous dales on the eastern side of the 

 Lake district, and to endeavour as far as possible to throw some 

 light upon the glacial phenomena of the Eden valley. 



Most of the facts were obtained in the course of the Geological 

 Survey of the district by Professor Hughes and the writer, and are 

 given here with the permission of the Director-General. Those 

 relating to much of the Eden valley, properly so called, were col- 

 lected by the writer in his holiday rambles in 1873-4, and are 

 introduced here to supplement the more detailed observations that 

 have been made on the part of the district hitherto mapped by the 

 Survey. 



The Ice Sheet, and Boulder-transportal. 



The physical features of the district need not be described in detail, 

 as the accompanying map (Plate II.) will give a better idea of them 

 than could be gathered from many pages of description. There are, 

 however, a few points to which it is desirable that attention should 

 be called, in order that the following remarks may be the better 

 understood. 



Generally speaking, we may say that the greater part of the high 

 ground of which Ingleborough, Whernside, and Gragreth form parts 

 lies to the E.S.E. of a line joining Kirkby Lonsdale and a point a 

 little to the north of Kirkby Stephen. The highest fells in this area 

 range from about 2200 feet to 2400 feet above the sea. Most of the 

 principal elevations lie within a few miles of the N.N.E. line just 

 mentioned : to the E.S.E. of this area of highest ground the uplands 

 gradually decline to the level of the plain of York. To the south it 

 is well denned by the line of the Craven faults ; and it will be con- 

 venient to take the strip of comparatively low ground known as 

 Stainmoor as its northern boundary. Within these boundaries the 

 uplands are much cut into by dales, of which the two principal are 

 Wensleydale and Swaledale. The whole of this area is generally 

 spoken of as the Dale district ; it will therefore be convenient to 

 use that name when referring to it further on. 



Lying to the north-west of the Dale district is another great up- 

 * Quart Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 471 (1872). 



