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Site of a great geological discovery
by Richard Sutcliffe geograph for square NS5373 This ordinary-looking, rather overgrown burn is the site of a great geological... (more)
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Hutton's Rock
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NT2772 Hutton's Rock is the stack of rock standing to right of centre. It is not... (more)
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Geological Boundary
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 The site of the inner ring fault. Dyke feature also prominent.
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Isle of Rum - Geology
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 A small dyke can be seen cutting the gritty sandstone. Behind a larger basaltic... (more)
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Magma Mixing
by Anne Burgess for square NM3997 The different types of rock in this outcrop are the result of magma mixing.... (more)
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Northern Marginal Zone
by Ashley Dace for square NM3997 A view across the NMZ. On the opposite side of the valley is an outcrop of... (more)
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Corrie Dubh Breccia
by Ashley Dace for square NM3997 The caldera breccia formed from the collapse of the sides. Composition differs... (more)
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Porphyritic rhyolite plug
by Ashley Dace for square NM3997 This is an intrusive plug with included mafic magma showing mixing. The mafic... (more)
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Porphyritic rhyolite
by Ashley Dace for square NM3997 Phenocrysts of plagioclase in the extrusive rhyolite. This filled the caldera.
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Cross Laminae
by Ashley Dace for square NM3997 Current cross laminations in the coarse gritty sandstone of the Torridonian group.
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Dolerite Plug
by Ashley Dace for square NM3999 A dolerite plug is evident by the crags but there is also more covered over. One... (more)
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Inner Ring Fault
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 The lithology change lines up with the cliff in the distance suggesting we are... (more)
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Spotted Rock
by Ashley Dace for square NM3998 Slight thermal metamorphism has possibly caused the spotting in this siltstone.... (more)
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Silt and Sand
by Ashley Dace for square NM3999 Not an amazing photo but it shows a small band of silt stone in between coarse... (more)
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Ancient Ripple Marks
by Ashley Dace for square NM3999 See also NM3999 : Ancient Ripple Marks
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Ancient Ripple Marks
by Ashley Dace for square NM3999 Ripples in the Torridonian strata.
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Splitting Dyke
by Ashley Dace for square NM3897 The dyke can be seen splitting off into a little offshoot.
[NM3897 : Dyke Feature]
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Dyke Feature
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3897 A dyke runs along through Rhyolite (I think, can't quite remember)
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Eastern Layered Intrusion
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3897 A view of the ELI
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Meall Breac
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3897 A ridge composed of extrusive breccha overlain by porphyritic rhyolite with... (more)
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Small Dyke
by Ashley Dace for square NM3998 A small dyke cutting through the gritty sandstone (of the Torridonian group). It... (more)
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Rock face and woodland near Dudley, West Midlands
by Roger D Kidd geograph for square SO9392 Looking north towards Mons Hill and Coseley.
The Wenlock Limestone exposures on... (more)
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Wren's Nest limestone ripple beds (detail), Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 Looking north-east from the ripple beds observation platform on the west side of... (more)
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Wren's Nest ripple beds (detail), Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 Looking north-east from the ripple beds observation platform on the west side of... (more)
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Limestone ripple beds on Wren's Nest Hill, Dudley
by Roger D Kidd geograph for square SO9391 Looking north-east from the ripple beds observation platform on the west side of... (more)
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Course of a geological dyke
by Lairich Rig geograph for square NS3678 The feature is as shown and described in NS3678 : Course of a geological dyke, but the present photograph... (more)
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Pit on geological dyke
by Lairich Rig geograph for square NS3678 The pit appears to have been the site of some small-scale quarrying. The dyke is... (more)
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Course of a geological dyke
by Lairich Rig geograph for square NS3678 To the right of a line receding directly from the photographer's location,... (more)
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Plaque on Daisy Rock
by Anne Burgess for square NJ1570 This plaque is more interesting for what it doesn't say than for what it... (more)
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Basalt Dyke
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 The dyke has been exposed. It runs down to Kinloch in a NS fashion. There is an... (more)
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Wren's Nest Hill near Dudley
by Roger D Kidd geograph for square SO9392 This is on the west side of the hill, looking north-east.
The former quarry,... (more)
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Wren's Nest ripple beds (detail), Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 Looking north-east from the ripple beds observation platform on the west side of... (more)
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Limestone exposure (detail) in Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 This is a detail of the famous Wenlock Limestone ripple beds exposure on the... (more)
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Wren's Nest ripple beds (detail), Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 Looking north-east from the ripple beds observation platform on the west side of... (more)
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Limestone exposure in Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, Dudley
by Roger D Kidd for square SO9391 This is on western side of Wren's Nest Hill in the nature reserve. The... (more)
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Old Red Sandstone and New Red Sandstone
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NJ1763 The rubbly layers at the top of this face are New Red Sandstone, and the more... (more)
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Desert Dunes
by Anne Burgess for square NJ1763 The sandstones in this rock face formed when what is now Scotland lay much... (more)
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Fossil Mud Curls
by Anne Burgess for square NJ1570 The marks on the surface of this slab of Hopeman Sandstone look like chisel... (more)
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Brecciated Sandstone
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NM3997 The foreground rocks here are a breccia containing angular fragments of... (more)
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Allt Slugan a' Choilich
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 A view up at the climb to Corrie Dubh, the rocks here at Siltstones from the... (more)
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Cnapan Breaca
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3997 The rocks in the foreground change from gabbro to gabbro breccian to porphyritic rhyolite.
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Northern Marginal Zone
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3997 Standing on Cnapan Breaca; the hills in the distance are Torridonian in age.
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Dyke Feature
by Ashley Dace geograph for square NM3998 A basaltic dyke has run NS, probably after the main caldera cycles had finished.
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Lot's Wife
by Lairich Rig geograph for square NS4178 Category: Geological feature This pinnacle is located in the lower reaches of Auchenreoch Glen. The... (more)
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Limestone slabs in Wren's Nest Nature Reserve near Dudley
by Roger D Kidd geograph for square SO9391 Looking south-east along the ridge from the ripple beds (off to the left)... (more)
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Fossil Trackway
by Anne Burgess for square NJ1670 These are the casts of footprints made by a reptile walking across the face of a... (more)
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A Sorry Sight
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NJ1669 The stone slab that is barely visible amongs the whins is one of several Permian... (more)
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Cross-bedded Sandstone
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NJ1570 The face of this outcrop is covered by barnacles, but the layers of sand which... (more)
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Cuttieshillock Quarry
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NJ1863 Like the rest of the numerous quarries on Quarrelhill, Cutties Hillock is no... (more)
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Cutties Hillock Quarry
by Anne Burgess geograph for square NJ1863 Like the rest of the numerous quarries on Quarrelhill, Cutties Hillock is no... (more)
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