Martin Mere : Lancashire's lost lake /
A drive through the area of Lancashire inland from the seaside resort of Southport takes you through miles of fertile agricultural land dotted with farms and smallholdings. Road signs pointing to such places as?Mereside?,?Mere Brow? and?Mere Sands Wood? suggest the origin of these peaty soils, becau...
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| Format: | eBuku |
| Bahasa: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2005.
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| Capaian Atas Talian: | Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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| Ringkasan: | A drive through the area of Lancashire inland from the seaside resort of Southport takes you through miles of fertile agricultural land dotted with farms and smallholdings. Road signs pointing to such places as?Mereside?,?Mere Brow? and?Mere Sands Wood? suggest the origin of these peaty soils, because in the seventeenth century this was the site of the largest lake in England. Martin Mere began as a depression in the glacial drift which filled with water as the ice from the last Ice Age retreated, and over its long history the land and the lake have contested the area as water levels have r. |
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| Penerangan Fizikal: | 1 online resource (xvi, 264 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846313523 184631352X |