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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.

 Sinen Gill.

 Sinen Gill.

 Roughten Gill

 unnamed gill off Blease Fell

 Scree on side of Blease Fell.

 Blencathra car park

 Sinen Gill.

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