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| geological walk, Blease Fell | ||
| Blease Fell geological walk | ||
| site name:- | Blease Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | geological walk | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2927 (etc) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 (etc) | |
| SummaryText:- | Skiddaw Group mudstone, perhaps hardened to slate - low grade metaphorism, chaistolite, at the edge of the contact with a Skiddaw Granite intrusion - higher grade metamorphism, spotted slate, in Roughten Gill, closer to the intrusion - granite in the stream bed - Skiddaw Granite exposure in Sinen Gill, and greatly metamorphosed mudstone, hornfels. | |
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Sinen Gill. |
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Sinen Gill. |
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Roughten Gill |
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unnamed gill off Blease Fell |
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Scree on side of Blease Fell. |
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Blencathra car park |
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Sinen Gill. |
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