February News

19th February 2021 | Comments Off on February News
The boundary between Skiddaw Group pelites and Borrowdale Volcanic Group tuffs at Warnscale Bottom

More geo-conservation work for Natural England (and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee) again this month, to finish off the current Geological Conservation Review in the Lake District and Northern Pennines that we reported back in December.

The photos here are from Warnscale Bottom, where rocks of the Ordovician Borrowdale Volcanic Group (BVG) are juxtaposed with older pelites of the Skiddaw Group. In the main photo (above) folded Skiddaw Gp. pelites are nicely exposed in the opposite bank of the beck. Upstream, on the right side of the photo, there are exposures of BVG units on both sides of the beck. The boundary is just right of centre of the photo, in the scrappy outcrops left of the near tree.

 

Cockade texture breccias in Borrowdale Volcanic Group rocks at Warnscale Bottom.

Cockade texture breccias in Borrowdale Volcanic Group rocks at Warnscale Bottom.

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