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low gradient of the sheet of sand and
gravel. This is one of three such outwash
plains in the area, another being Salthouse
Heath (TG 075430) to the west and the third
extending south from the Cromer Ridge
(TG 175410). The Cromer Ridge has been
argued to be older than the Kelling Heath
outwash plain, because the former is
considered to be much more eroded; however,
evidence was shown at TG 097426 that
Kelling Heath is also deeply dissected,
suggesting that the degree of erosion is
not necessarily a good criterion for age
determinations. No sections are available
at Kelling Heath, but a quarry at Britons
Lane (TG 167416) near Sheringham, in the
Cromer Ridge, showed the landforms to be
composed of sub-horizontally bedded sands
and gravels, as would be expected of an out-
wash plain, representing a series of
spreads of gravel and sand building up one
on top of another.
Other landforms associated with the melt of
the Scandinavian ice were also examined.
Kames, conical hills, are thought to
represent debris which builds up at the base
of the ice. An excellent one could be seen
at Muckleburgh Hill (TG 101429), immediately
north of Kelling Heath and sections were
seen in another to the south of Glandford,
at TG 043410. The Glandford kame is
approximately 200-250 m in diameter and the
sections in it raise several interesting
points. Traditionally in textbooks, kames
are explained as forming as cones of debris
deposited vertically through the ice, through
fissures or 'chimneys'. Consequently, one
would expect conical or Λ-shaped bedding.
However, the bedding was horizontal and