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[davel]

If you mean here Dave:

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

I'm not convinced...

Well, I did say "I think".

I will check with my geologist friends when I next see them (though they will probably say "It's not geology, it's geomorphology!")

Dave

 

[BertyBasset]

Not to worry! My moraine also got corrected by Chris to a river terrace!!

I think what's happened here is that river coming down from the south has just swept part of an alluvial fan (according to my drift map) away leaving a linear feature.

 

[Roy Morton]

Some nice folding at Porthtowan Cornwall person for scale

 

[TomFerry]

My chalcopyrite finds, from walking mount Snowdon .

 

[BertyBasset]

Nice samples. Looks like you've got some bornite as well?

 

[TomFerry]

minerals

Explore this photo album by Tom Ferry on Flickr!

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short video on a sample.

 

[cantclimbtom]

Lovely sample Tom, especially the second pic. Where did you find that, on the Miners' track near Britannia Copper mine?

 

[Willy Eckerslyke]

Not to worry! My moraine also got corrected by Chris to a river terrace!!

If you like river terraces, there are some good ones at Mallwyd (Brigands Inn).

 

[alanw]

Another plug for the National Library of Scotland's on-line maps. The terraces show up beautifully on LIDAR

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[alanw]

And drumlins, to the south and east of Ribblehead

Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[Willy Eckerslyke]

Thanks Alan, that's beautiful!

Silurian turbidites anyone?

 

[BertyBasset]

That's got to be somwehere between Aberystwyth and Aberaeron! ??

 

[Willy Eckerslyke]

That's got to be somwehere between Aberystwyth and Aberaeron! ??

Close, but no biscuit.
It's Clarach.
(To the north, Needs a low tide to get there and back safely.)

 

[BertyBasset]

Ha. That the only bit of coastal path between Chester and Aber I've not done. Looks like I've missed a treat then.

 

[Willy Eckerslyke]

Yup, well worth a look.
You'll have been here then - Aberarth which is between Abers Ystwyth and Aeron.

 

[Yorkshire Lad]

Not very mine-related, but it does have some significance with regard to the cave and pothole systems in the Dales.

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Unconformity between the Askrigg Block and the Great Scar Limestone above it at Foredale Quarry, Ribblesdale. See Geological Notes Relating to the Quarries at Helwith Bridge for more information.

Dave

If you like unconformity you should visit my home town of Knaresborough where on my daily commute I cycle past Addlethorpe Grit, a Carboniferous Sedimentary Sandstone 322 million years old over lain by Dolostone of the Cadeby Formation, a Permian Sedimentary Siltstone 272 million years old old. Somewhere there are 50 million years of rocks missing!

 

[dougle89]

Not entirely sure what's going on here. Thinking the iron filled carboniferous limestone of the Dalton bed meeting possibly the Poolscar formation of lighter Shaley stuff

 

[Yorkshire Lad]

Any one know what these bands are?
Found it on a spoil heap near the Copperthwaite Mining Ground

 

[Mr Mike]

Calcite?

 

[dougle89]

Calcite?

Second for this, doesn't look like quartz,