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geological walk, Blease Fell, Threlkeld, Cumbria, NY2927 -- Rock, hand specimen of Skiddaw mudstone highly metamorphosed to hornfels, from Sinen Gill, Blease Fell, Threlkeld, Cumberland, NY30042814, 21 October 2012.
The specimen was taken from the stream bed below the waterfall over the exposed Skiddaw granite; contact metamorphism? it 'rings'.
Skiddaw group, mudstone; Ordovician, Llanvirn/Arenig.
 (photo 21.10.2012)
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