Clevelands Ice dam release of flood water from the esk valley.

My earlier post on a possible reason for major flooding of the Cleveland beck valleys - reported in the following link http://historyofabeck.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/storregga-slides-stunami-theory.html 
now look to be unlikely, ive had some great advice on the deposits, and most seem to agree the deposits are most likely the result of fresh water flooding .
I have another theory, could there have been an ice dam at the mouth of the western end of the Esk valley, could this dam have held water in the esk valley while the lower lands of what is now south west Cleveland were repopulated at the end of the last ice age, only for the ice dam to fail and release a devastating flood ?

The lowlands to the north west of the mouth of the of the Esk valley, do look to have a ripple effect in the landscape; gradually getting less evident as it reaches what would have been the large natural drainage channels of the Triassic bedrock beck valleys of south west Cleveland, that would have then drained into the Tees as it was then.

Richard S White. http://thewildlifemuseum.academia.edu/RWhite

I would like to welcome a good freind and a man who has been a great help to me over the last 4 years at least, Rich has agreed to help me run the blog, thank you mate !   http://thewildlifemuseum.academia.edu/RWhite

Cleveland and Stonehenge - Stainsby beck deposits link ? l

I have now been reporting my work in the south west of Cleveland for over six years, my early work was a learning curve, but i now believe i have discovered some of Britain's most important Prehistoric deposits at a Stainsby beck location.
 Possibly older and of equal importance as Stonehenge, and other well known prehistoric sites in other parts of the British isles, and the deposits could even have links to the earliest stone circles.

http://historyofabeck.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/stainsby-ancient-lake-bed-excavated.html
http://historyofabeck.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/ancient-human-tibia-shaft-excavated.html
http://historyofabeck.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/more-of-huge-prehistoric-cervus-elephus.html



 

Cervus Elephus Red Deer tibia and prehistoric Bos Skull excavated from the Stainsby sacraficial deposits.

These three bones were found yesterday at the Stainsby beck lake deposits, I  believe the Tibia belonged to a huge Cervus Elephus, the bos skull was found close by and only two metres away from important human bone's and artifacts, as well as an identical bos skull i found last year.

 1- Prehistoric Bos skull

 2 - Prehistoric Cervidae Tibia.

 3 - Rear of the Bos skull, note the condition, i only ever wash and dry the fossils i excavate or find in the beck bed.

 4 - Note the shape and muscle attatchments, there are obviouse differences when compared to a Bos tibia.

 5 - The tibia would have measured between 40 and 45 cm, it matches a shire horse tibia i have in length.

Clevelands Geology and its magnetic content

 1 - This image shows most of the separate geological layers we now walk on in the south west of Cleveland,from top to bottom we have 1 metre + of stoneless alluvium with no fossil content, next a blue grey sandy clay deposit 100- 150 mm thick . then the Stainton gravel bed 300 mm thick and rich in preserved bone & older fossils & minerals marked with the black outline, then a red brown plastic clay averaging 1m thick.

HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds

 2 - This image shows the layer that sits directly above the Stainton gravel beds 100 to 150 mm grey blue layer of sandy organic clay, containing large amounts of what looks to be high grade coal fragments probably Anthracite.

 3 - This image shows three of the lower deposits, bright red clay layer to the top averaging 50 - 60 mm thick, bright blue clay layer again averaging 50 - 60 mm thick.

 4 - The images do not do the red and blue clay brightness justice !

 5 -HISTORY OF A BECK: Maltby deposits

 6 - Top to bottom

  (a) Yellow outline  = Alluvium 1 metre = thick with no visible stone content small coal pieces probably Anthracite. High magnetic content smaller sandy grains extremely magnetic. 

 (b) Black outline  = blue - grey sandy deposit 150 - 160 mm thick containing small coal pieces probably anthracite. High magnetic content.

 (c)  Red outline  = Stainton gravel bed average thickness 300mm, containing preserved organic material, and a high magnetic content.

 (d) Red brown plastic clay with visible stone content, and Jurassic fossils, low magnetic content.

 7 - Black outline  = red brown plastic clay as show in image 6, with visible stone content both rounded and angular, also Jurassic marine fossils. Low magnetic content.

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(a) Yellow outline  = Very bright red clay 50-60mm thick containing what looks to be very small pieces of Mercia mudstone ( red ) as well as small rounded and angular stone, Low magnetic content.

  (b)  Red outline = Very bright blue clay 50-60 mm thick no visible stone content, No magnetic content .

(c) Black outline = Red - brown plastic clay - no magnetic content,

 visible stone content.

The bed rock below these deposit is Triassic Mercia mudstone, and all of the deposits i have tested in the south west of Cleveland, have shown no signs of any magnetic content, this strongly points towards the uppermost Holocene superficial deposits being the source of the magnetic content. I have tried to identify possible surrounding areas for the origins of the Anthracite pieces in the Holocene deposits, but have found nothing definite yet.

Related posts

The magnetic properties of the Cleveland dyke in ... - history of a beck

                                                                                                                                             

HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds 

Clevelands Red deer Antler & Equus skull after a little work.

  1 This huge antler piece is magnificent, when i excavated this piece i new my theories had been right all along, in my 7 years of research into the previously unknown deposits that lay beneath our feet, here in the south west of the ancient area named Cleveland in the North East of England.

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 4 - All of the animals in this deposit show no evidence of butchery !

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 7 - As reported earlier this Equus was restrained in a barbaric manner.

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Please note the the items above were descovered in the prehistoric blue grey deposits at Stainsby beck not in the stainton gravel bed beds !