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The Vale of Pickering (the Vale) is located in East Yorkshire, Eastern England, approximately 10 km to the southwest of Scarborough. During the Quaternary geological period, the Vale lay just to the south of the maximum limit of the Late Devensian glaciation (Figure 1) — the last major glaciation to affect the UK (Bowen et al., 1986<ref name="Bowen 1986">BOWEN, D Q, ROSE, J, MCCABE, A M, and SUTHERLAND, D G. 1986. Correlation of Quaternary glaciations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. ''Quaternary Science Reviews'', Vol. 5, 299–340.</ref>; Clark et al., 2012<ref name="Clark 2012">CLARK, C D, HUGHES, A L, GREENWOOD, S L, JORDAN, C, and SEJRUP, H P. 2012. Pattern and timing of retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. ''Quaternary Science Reviews'', Vol. 44, 112–146.</ref>; Böse et al., 2012)<ref name="Böse 2012">BÖSE, M, LÜTHGENS, C, LEE, J R, and ROSE, J. 2012. Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe. ''Quaternary Science Reviews'', Vol. 44, 1–25. </ref>.

[[Image:OR15064fig1a.jpg|thumb|center|500px| '''Figure 1''' A map of the UK and adjacent areas showing the location of the Vale of Pickering and the extent of Quaternary glaciation (after Bowen ''et al''., 1986). ]]

The Vale forms a broadly west-east trending area of low-lying ground that is bounded to the north by the Tabular Hills, to the south by the Howardian Hills and Yorkshire Wolds (Figure 2). In contrast to the surrounding hills, the relief of the Vale is relatively flat with few notable hills or visible deep valleys. This distinctive landscape reflects a relatively complicated recent geological history that was produced by a range of geological processes. The latter stages of its geological development occurred when the Vale was impounded to the west (Vale of York ice) and east (North Sea ice) by lobes of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet and a vast glacial lake formed (Kendall, 1902<ref name="Kendall 1902">KENDALL, P.F. 1902. Glacier-Lakes in the Cleveland Hills. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 58, 471–571.</ref>; Murton and Murton, 2012 <ref name="Murton 2012">MURTON, D K, and MURTON, J B. 2012. Middle and Late Pleistocene glacial lakes of lowland Britain and the southern North Sea Basin. ''Quaternary International'', Vol. 260, 115–142.</ref>; Bateman et al., 2015)<ref name="Bateman 2015">BATEMAN, M D, EVANS, D J A, BUCKLAND, P C, CONNELL, E R, FRIEND, R J, HARTMANN, D, MOXON, H, FAIRBURN, W A, PANAGIOTAKOPULU, E, and ASHURST, R A. 2015. Last glacial dynamics of the Vale of York and North Sea lobes of the British and Irish Ice Sheet. ''Proceedings of the Geologists' Association'', Vol. 126, in press</ref>. This lake appears to have been linked to an adjacent glacial lake — Lake Flixton, situated to the east of the Vale (Candy et al., 2015<ref name="Candy 2015">CANDY, I, FARRY, A, DARVILL, C M, PALMER, A, BLOCKLEY, S P E, MATTHEWS, I P, MACLEOD, A, DEEPROSE, L, FARLEY, N, KEARNEY, R, CONNELLER, C, TAYLOR, B, and MILNER, N. 2015. The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr: an oxygen and carbon isotopic record of environmental change for the early Holocene. ''Proceedings of the Geologists' Association'', Vol. 126, 60–71.</ref>; Palmer et al., 2015)<ref name="Palmer 2015">PALMER, A P, MATTHEWS, I P, CANDY, I, BLOCKLEY, S P E, MACLEOD, A, DARVILL, C M, MILNER, N, CONNELLER, C, and TAYLOR, B. 2015. The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr, NE. Yorkshire: stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) lacustrine sequences. ''Proceedings of the Geologists' Association'', Vol. 126, 50–59.</ref>, with their water levels and patterns of sedimentation patterns apparently controlled by ice-damming and overspill (Murton and Murton, 2012)<ref name="Murton 2012"></ref>.

[[Image:OR15064fig2.jpg|thumb|center|500px| '''Figure 2''' Digital elevation model showing the topography of the Vale of Pickering. Colour- ramped and shaded NextMap Britain elevation data from Intermap Technologies.]]

The scope of this report is two-fold: firstly, to provide a brief and easily-understandable overview of the recent geological evolution of the Vale of Pickering ([[OR/15/064 The Quaternary history of the Vale of Pickering |see The Quaternary history of the Vale of Pickering]]); and secondly, to summarise the various datasets that provide information about the Vale ([[OR/15/064 Relevant geological data |see Relevant geological data]], [[OR/15/064 Review and interpretation of selected Single Onshore Borehole Index logs |Review and interpretation of selected Single Onshore Borehole Index logs]] and [[OR/15/064 Cross section interpretation |Cross section interpretation]].

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