Lush pasture atop a glacial feature near New Heaton, Northumberland
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Lush pasture atop a glacial feature near New Heaton, Northumberland
Image: © ian shiell Taken: 27 May 2014
Ridges like this seem to have been the relict of an ice stream within the general ice cover of the last ice age. Faintly in the distance is the volcanic footprint that is the Eildon Hills.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.651508
Longitude
-2.183194