Blencathra
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- Outdoor Classroom
For Teachers and Students - Geology
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For Environmental Professionals, Teachers and Outdoor Leaders
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Blencathra
Lake District
Outdoor Classroom
Geology
Glenderaterra – 1 day
Features associated with an igneous intrusion. This day examines the Glenderaterra metamorphic aureole.
Eden Vale – 1 day
Investigating new red sandstone beds.
Links through the geological column – 1 day
Examining sequences of rocks from Silurian shales to Carboniferous limestone to the new red sandstone.
Quaternary in the Lake District – 1 day
Upland and lowland features of glaciation in the Lake District.
Shap Pink Quarry – ½ day
Corus at Hardendale – ½ day
Limestone to quick lime quarry and kilns.
Borrowdale Volcanics – ½ day
Examining a wide range if igneous rocks, including andesites, rhyolites, water-laid tuffs and granophyre.
Honister Slate Quarry – ½ day
Birkshead Gypsum Mine – ½ day
Caldbeck Fells – ½ day
Looking at Gabbro, felsite and Eycott volcanics with micro minerals.