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Early Military Geology (Battles)
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Early Military Geology (Battles)
Battlefield tactics
- Fundamentals
- Secure high ground
- Avoid mobility restricting terrain
- Maintain Comms.
- Control Space for operation
- Topography & drainage controlled by underlying geology
- Geological structure, bedrock & 'recent' deposits can play critical role
- Medieval commanders used terrain to weigh outcome
- Fundamentals
Tough terrain analysis
- Bedrock Lithology/structure that controls erosion patterns, drift deposits and substrate permeability
- Affects
- Geomorphology
- Drainage patterns
- natural obstacles (eg rivers)
- Affects
- Used to plan strats & tactics
- Bedrock Lithology/structure that controls erosion patterns, drift deposits and substrate permeability
battles
- Bannockburn
- Mix of seds, intrusions and volcanics
- Stirling castle on glacially sculptured sill
- scots sieged, brits FF
- lots of raised beaches
- 20k english stopped by 7.5k scots
- scots protected by pits, woods& raised beach
- scots sat on a sill
- brits tried to flank, and lost
- Towton
- Yorkists on high ground (Mg limestone)
- Faults provided cover for advancing Yorkists
- Lancastrians advances
- Yorks hidden approach drives them back
- Lancastrians stuck with back to river
- majority slaughtered in river and bloody meadow
- Lancastrians stuck with back to river
- Yorks hidden approach drives them back
- Lancastrians advances
- Faults provided cover for advancing Yorkists
- Yorkists on high ground (Mg limestone)
- Flodden
- Border war
- king james, france occupied volcanic ridge
- Faulted Valley separated scots and english
- king james, france occupied volcanic ridge
- English small guns effective
- scots advanced into valley
- bogged down
- bog caused by natural spring
- bogged down
- scots advanced into valley
- english made hidden approach and slaughtered scots
- Border war
- Lansdown
- Oolitic limestone hills and softer limestone erosion, forming steep valleys
- Narrow hilltop stopped parlimentarian reinforcements
- Oolitic limestone hills and softer limestone erosion, forming steep valleys
- Naseby
- Jurassic sandstone outcrops in softer lias sediments
- parl. had high ground, cavalry charged downhill & won
- Jurassic sandstone outcrops in softer lias sediments
- Dunbar
- Scots 20k troops on conglomerate hills, blocking english
- Stupidly abandoned position, to steep bank
- Slaughtered by English cavalry
- Stupidly abandoned position, to steep bank
- Scots 20k troops on conglomerate hills, blocking english
- Bannockburn