Kelsey Hill Gravel Pits

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East Riding of Yorkshire County

Condition (Natural England)

Geology & landscape

Geological Period: Quaternary

Landscape processes: Glacial

Description

Area, 10.6 hectares 26.2 acresDescription Kelsey Hill Gravel Pit's are of particular geological interest in exhibiting the representative exposure of a sequence of Ice Age Pleistocene deposits typical to this area. Kelsey Hill is the type area for the Kelsey Hill Gravels, a suite of Pleistocene deposits containing a derived, mixed fossil fauna. The latter, which includes marine molluscs, one freshwater mollusc and vertebrate remains, is incorporated in fluvio glacial gravels whichoverlie Skipsea Till and are overlapped by weathered Withernsea Till. The marine and freshwater molluscs are temperate types, probably of Ipswichian Interglacial age, but the vertebrates include both ‘cold’ and ‘warm’ faunas. The fossil remains appear to have been derived by Devensian Ice, but their sources and the reasons for their localised concentration are arguable. Other information 1. The site is identified as being of national importance in the Geological Conservation Review. 2. During the 1986 revision the boundary of this site has been amended to exclude part of the land previous notified *.* Under Section 23 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949.1 Kelsey Hill Gravel Pit's