Geology of Great Britain
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View of the main areas of former mining activity in Coppermines Valley. To the right of the image the large spoil heaps from the Bonser ore dressing floors sit close to Church Beck. Spoil heaps from exploitation of the Bonser Vein are on the fells behind. In the centre the spoil heaps from the Paddy End Vein extend up ...
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The head of the classic U shaped valley of Great Langdale. From the left Crinkle Crags and Bowfell, then the Landale Pikes, with Pike O’Stickle just visble above Loft Crag and Harrison Stickle standing up in the middle of the range. The cliff of Pavey Ark is further right and the top visible on the right hand side of...
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Coppermines Valley, near Coniston. The view is from near the path on the SW side of Church Beck. It’s as good a place to walk as any if you’re a geologist into minerals and mineralisation. The area has been mined for copper and quarried for slate. On the right hand side of the image the spoil from quarrying slate a...
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Folded and faulted sequence of Carboniferous (Westphalian) sandstons and shales from the Bude Formation, exposed north of the seapool at Summerleaze Beach in Bude, Cornwall, England. The Bude Formation was deposited in a basin at the northern edge of the closing Rheic Ocean and was then deformed in the Variscan orogeny...
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Taken from near the lifeguard lookout hut, this panorama shows the interbedded sandstones and shales of the Westphalian Bude Formation in the wave-cut platform of Summerleaze Beach, at Bude, in North Cornwall. The panorama was taken towards the west and the beds have a roughly east-west strike (typically we measured ar...
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Hermaness National Nature Reserve is the most northerly NNR in the UK, right at the northern tip of the UK, on the island of Unst in Shetland. It's home to thousands of pairs of seabirds, Gannets, Guillemots, Razorbills, Puffins, Kittiwakes, Gulls, Great Skuas, Arctic Skuas, and many upland birds breed there too, Red-t...
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This syncline is at Summerleaze Beach, Bude, Cornwall. The interbedded shales and sandstones are from the Bude Formation, deposited during the Westphalian (Upper Carboniferous) as the last remnants of the Rheic ocean were infilled with sediment. The photograph is taken facing East, roughly along the strike of the beds....
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view from the summit of ben nevis
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A tonemapped image, produced in Luminance HDR and stitched using Hugin. Taken at Porthtowan beach in Cornwall, England on Saturday 19th May 2012.
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Amiwch industrial heritage Anglesy wales uk
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