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If the ice advanced across Britain today, it would demolish all traces of our civilization as easily as we sweep the garden path. Later on, as the ice melted, it would regurgitate a sad and unrecognisable jumble of fragments from everyday life. Today, in England and Wales there are no glaciers, but their power during the Ice Age is revealed by the dramatic valleys gouged from the volcanic uplands of the Lake District. Excellent examples of the scouring effects of glaciers can be seen around the hollowed-out slopes of Helvellyn, one of the higher peaks in the area.
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© 1992 A. S. Goudie and R. A. M. Gardner
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Goudie, A., Gardner, R. (1992). Helvellyn, Striding Edge and Red Tarn. In: Discovering Landscape in England & Wales. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2298-6_7
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