Erratics – Shap Granite

Marske

Runswick Bay

Hayburn Wyke

Warrenby

There are reports of Shap Granite boulders on the seabed of the Tees Bay. These boulders were transported by a glacier during the Late Devensian glaciation about 30,000 years ago. They originate from a granite outcrop on the fells just south of the village of Shap in Cumbria.

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