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Caledonian Structures in Britain: South of the Midland Valley » (1st ed)
Authors: J.E. Treagus
ISBN-13: 9780412475603, ISBN-10: 041247560X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date Published: January 1992
Edition: 1st ed
Author Biography: J.E. Treagus
Book Synopsis
This book deals with those sites selected as part of the Geological Conservation Review within the southern British part of the Caledonides - a Caledonian terrain without strong and pervasive deformation and metamorphism, such as occurred further north.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Access to the countryside | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Caledonian structures | 1 |
| The Caledonian Orogenic Belt | 3 | |
| The British Caledonides | 3 | |
| Scottish Highlands | 3 | |
| Midland Valley | 5 | |
| Southern Uplands | 5 | |
| Lake District | 5 | |
| Wales | 5 | |
| 2 | Southern Uplands | 9 |
| Introduction - a structural perspective | 11 | |
| Siccar Point | 17 | |
| John's Road and Agate Point | 19 | |
| Barlocco | 22 | |
| Cruggleton Bay North | 25 | |
| Isle of Whithorn Bay | 28 | |
| West Burrow Head | 33 | |
| Back Bay, Monreith | 35 | |
| Grennan Bay | 38 | |
| 3 | Lake District | 43 |
| Buttermere Village | 56 | |
| Hassness and Goat Crags | 58 | |
| Gasgale Crags and Whiteside | 64 | |
| River Caldew | 67 | |
| Raven Crags, Mungrisdale | 70 | |
| Warnscale Bottom, Buttermere | 73 | |
| Hollows Farm | 75 | |
| Limestone Haws to High Pike Haw, Coniston | 77 | |
| Shap Fell | 82 | |
| Jeffrey's Mount, Tebay | 87 | |
| Helwith Bridge | 89 | |
| Jumb Quarry | 91 | |
| 4 | Wales | 95 |
| Introduction - a structural perspective | 97 | |
| Alexandra Quarry | 104 | |
| Trum y Ddysgl | 108 | |
| Cwm Idwal | 110 | |
| Capel Curig | 116 | |
| Tan y Grisiau | 118 | |
| Ogof Gynfor | 120 | |
| Rhosneigr | 122 | |
| Cwm Rheidol | 126 | |
| Allt Wen | 128 | |
| North Clarach | 132 | |
| Cormorant Rock | 134 | |
| Ponterwyd Quarry | 136 | |
| Traeth Penbryn | 139 | |
| Ca'er-hafod Quarry, Llangollen | 140 | |
| Lligwy Bay | 145 | |
| Carmel Head | 148 | |
| Llanelwedd Quarry | 151 | |
| Dolyhir Quarries, Old Radnor | 154 | |
| References | 159 | |
| Index | 171 |
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