12: Meltwater streams
Discover Seaham’s glacial landscapes with evidence of meltwater, outwash sands, graded channels, and subglacial streams, unravelling ancient history.
11: Disappearing ice, meltwater streams and lakes
The final bit of the jigsaw puzzle at Seaham that tells us that the ice is disappearing, are the yellow sands and gravels at the top of the cliff. As the ice melts, it produces melt water. This begins to form streams and rivers and those streams and rivers transport sorted sands and gravels in […]
10: Tracing Melting Glaciers
Discover Seaham’s glacial landscapes with evidence of meltwater, outwash sands, graded channels, and subglacial streams, unravelling ancient history.
09: Identifying Glacial Erratics and Reconstructing Ice Flow
Explore glacial erratics at Seaham, tracing ice’s journey from Scotland. Clues reveal diverse materials and ancient routes.
08: Striated rock
Here is a great example of a glacial erratic. This is a clast that’s been eroded, transported and deposited by the ice within the glacial till here at Seaham. It has got some characteristics that tell us it has been transported subglacially, that is within the sediment beneath the ice. Firstly, this boulder is sub-rounded […]
07: Glacier Flow Directions (Discover how ice flow directions changed.)
Explore Seaham’s glacial tills, revealing ice flow changes and diverse materials, including limestone and glacial erratics.
06: Examining the Secrets of Seaham’s Glacial Tills
Discover Seaham’s glacial tills with local Permian limestone, featuring striated clasts, evidence of ancient ice sheet movements.
05: Glacial Tills of Seaham: Interaction of ice with the bedrock below
Explore the interaction between ice sheets and limestone, revealing glacial tills’ mysteries in Seaham’s geological heritage.
04: The Fascinating Ice Ages of County Durham
Ice Ages and Interglacial Periods
03: Seaham’s Ice Age Secrets
Explore the geological history of Seaham’s coast, discovering evidence of the last ice age and its impact on limestone.