Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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
- Tough terrain analysis
- Bedrock Lithology/structure that
controls erosion patterns, drift
deposits and substrate
permeability
- Affects
- Geomorphology
- Drainage patterns
- natural obstacles (eg rivers)
- Used to plan strats & tactics
- 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
- Flodden
- Border war
- king james, france
occupied volcanic ridge
- Faulted Valley separated scots and english
- English small guns effective
- scots advanced into valley
- bogged down
- bog caused by natural spring
- english made
hidden
approach and
slaughtered
scots
- Lansdown
- Oolitic limestone hills and softer
limestone erosion, forming steep
valleys
- Narrow hilltop stopped parlimentarian reinforcements
- Naseby
- Jurassic sandstone outcrops in softer lias sediments
- parl. had high ground, cavalry charged downhill & won
- Dunbar
- Scots 20k troops on conglomerate hills, blocking english
- Stupidly abandoned position, to steep bank
- Slaughtered by English cavalry