Project 5: Geomorphological survey (1996 and 1997)
Date(s): 1996
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Geomorphological features and quarry trial sites; list and description of numbered sites from the main report; 4 A4 typed pages and two copies of an annotated A3 catchment area plan; 1996.
River terraces in the upper Glendhoo valley by PJD 3 A4 typed pages of descriptive text and two A4 25” map photocopied sheets with field annotation of terraces, shown in red, with pencil sketch profiles 1996; 4 pages of photocopies of existing geomorphology maps of IOM that include Ballaugh Glen in some way.
Geomorphology (Slieau Curn side of the area); 3-page introductory text by PJD, 1996.
Exposures of drift etc in the river valley; handwritten text by PJD, 1997, with notes on Plots 1868, 1862, 1857, 1858, 1848, 1833 and opposite Plot 1831; with annotated A3 plan to show location of 6 drift exposures and paleo-channels.
Data from terrace levelling carried out on 18th and 20th July 1997: reduced 1868 25” to show position of levelling sites S1 to S7; 8 A4 lined pages of levelling pencil records and valley cross-sections.
Draft A4 illustration to show sequence of solifluction and incision in the Dhoo valley in 5 stages.
Photographic record
5 colour-mounded 35mm slides [02/1169 to 06/1173], in plastic filing folder labelled ‘Geological sections of the river terrace at The Purt’. No identification list but dated 26/07/2001.
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/35/5
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