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General question..

General question..

daddyman16 said:
I don't know if you've ever been on the train from Preston to Cumbria, but there's some impressive farmland on the left side, the fields all have these little peaks. Hard to put into words what I'm on about mindyou.
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Scafell Pike is slightly more than a little peak 🏔️👍
 
From 'O' level Physical Geography, they are called Drumlins;-low,oval-shaped mounds of glacial boulder clay which was deposited by the Ice-Age Glaciers , which originated in the centre of the Lake District. These glaciers melted, leaving distinct U- shaped valleys; the mountains on either side of these being Very High and rugged.At the top of one of these being named - Scafell Pike.
 
noelpne said:
From 'O' level Physical Geography, they are called Drumlins;-low,oval-shaped mounds of glacial boulder clay which was deposited by the Ice-Age Glaciers , which originated in the centre of the Lake District. These glaciers melted, leaving distinct U- shaped valleys; the mountains on either side of these being Very High and rugged.At the top of one of these being named - Scafell Pike.
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Ahh, that's interesting, it might well be them then. I've never seen anything like them in Wales where I used to live, we get corries and aretes instead.
 
daddyman16 said:
That's interesting logic, I'm pescetarian but honestly haven't thought about it like that before.
So because there's an industry for lamb meat, that means sheep are encouraged to breed, meaning sheep population remains high. As sheep need farmland, they get farmland which means sheep always have land meaning less chance of extinction? Is that the gist?

My mum's full on vegan, so if I shared this logic she'd e-slap me.
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Yes.
The simple fact is that if farmers can't sell the meat they will not breed the animals. Mass extinction of farm animals will result and our descendants will only see a few remaining animals in zoos, in books and films. People will never see lambs frolicking in the fields ever again. Sad.
 
daddyman16 said:
Ahh, that's interesting, it might well be them then. I've never seen anything like them in Wales where I used to live, we get corries and aretes instead.
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A corrie, or cwm in welsh, is the bowl shaped hollow near the mountain top where the glaciers originated, many have small lakes, or tarns in them.
An arete is a knife shaped ridge formed when two corries are gouged out on opposite sides of a mountain leaving a Knife edged ridge between, like striding edge in the lakes or Crib Gogh[ apologies for the spelling] on Snowdon,
 
Arete....
Part of a scouse greeting that when fully spoken, reads as:-

" Yous arete dere ? "

Translated, meaning "Are you alright there? "
 
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