Seaham

Seaham

(The glass beach)

Start

1: Introduction

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2: Coastal Evolution: Unravelling Durham's Hard Rock Coastline

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3: Introduction - Seaham's Ice Age Secrets
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4: The Fascinating Ice Ages of County Durham

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5: Glacial Tills of Seaham: Interaction of ice with the bedrock below

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6: Examining the Secrets of Seaham's Glacial Tills

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7: Ice Age : Glacier Flow Directions

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8: Striated Rock

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9: Identifying Glacial Erratics

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10: Tracing Melting Glaciers

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11: Disappearing ice, meltwater streams and lakes

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12: Tracing Melting Glaciers

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13: Glacial Lake Wear: Evidence of foreset beds

Welcome
to Seaham

This is the start of your journey discovering Seaham’s Ice Age secrets and how sea level rise and fall over the Permian and Quaternary Periods have shaped the coastline through time.