Also known as 'The Lake District', 'The Lakes' or Cumbria.
The area is a classic upland area with what is known as a CIRQUE - ARETE - TROUGH landscape.
Geology map from the very excellent CUMBRIA RIGS site.
Need to use the following lessons to identify actual examples of particular erosional and depositional landforms to use as exemplification. They will be called upon in an essay question situation, which means that you need to consider the details about:
LOCATION: be fairly specific: which valley of the Lakes, or how far they are from the nearest settlement and direction
DESCRIPTION: could be size: height, width etc, and composition: type of materials which make it up e.g is it sorted or unsorted material ?
FORMATION: how was the feature formed ? - was it formed in contact with the ice, or in front of the ice, or beneath the ice
1. NOTE TAKING
Features which need to be discovered, located, and explained: (preferably with a photo from a website, or diagram taken from the textbook)
CIRQUE (and the Tarns which occupy them) - e.g. Stickle Tarn, Pavey Ark
ARETE - e.g. Striding Edge
GLACIAL TROUGH - e.g. Great and Little Langdale Valley
PYRAMIDAL PEAK - e.g. Helvellyn
PLUS
Evidence that the ice occupied the valleys or moved down them
Depositional features: Roche Moutonnees, Drumlins, Moraines
There is a page of LAKES LINKS on this website.
Try the INTERNET GEOGRAPHY site for some useful basic notes.
There are some rather good photos of the area around HELVELLYN
Some very useful details on CORRIES at the good old Geography Exchange site.
There's a QUICK TIME VIRTUAL MOVIE of Helvellyn here, which has a 360 degree panorama from the summit. Don't look at this if you're in a lesson at KES, but if you've got a fast connection then click away.
Click on the link to the National Park at the top of the page.
There are a whole series of Regionally Important Geomorphological Sites (RIGS) in CUMBRIA which are described and located HERE. There may be some useful details in the various Geological societies which link from here.
This KENDAL 67 site has some useful pages, which include a few large pictures, try also the WESTMORLAND Geological Society. This has a map to locate the Lake District, plus some weather data from Kendal.
