Dartmoor - The Geology Timeline
Welcome to the Dartmoor Geology Timeline, covering the formation of Dartmoor from the Devonian period 370 million years ago, to 11,500 years ago when Dartmoor became the landscape we know today.
Devonian (370 million years ago)
Sea, sand & mud!
Late Pleistocene (approx. 150 thousand years ago)
The rivers of Dartmoor
Peat and Humans (11,500 years ago)
Peat and humans
China Clay (50 million years ago)
Also known as Kaolin
Paleogene (50 million years ago)
Sub-tropical Dartmoor
Surrounding Dartmoor (270 million years ago)
Erosion
Permian (280 million years ago)
The birth of Dartmoor
Ice Age (2 million years ago)
Arctic Dartmoor
Cretaceous (100 million years ago)
Dartmoor as an island
