The Northern Fells from Eycotte Hill. A landscape story 500 million years in the making.
This view from Eucott hill looks over the bed of what was once a glacial lake. Sandwiched between the mudstones and siltstones of the Skiddaw slates which make up the mountains in this picture and the limestones to the rear of the photographer are the Eycott volcanic rocks, intrusions resulting from continents moving together. The landscape around Eycott show these numerous lava flows overlapping each other. This is a nationally important geological area and rather beautiful.
John Rodgers has a very good U Tube film about the area, well worth watching.
Place name. Oak woodland - Viking - Aiket . With thanks to a very persistent John Gorrill who tracked it down after lots of intelligent detective work in the archivist's office. Thanks John.
The Northern Fells from Eycotte Hill. A landscape story 500 million years in the making.
This view from Eucott hill looks over the bed of what was once a glacial lake. Sandwiched between the mudstones and siltstones of the Skiddaw slates which make up the mountains in this picture and the limestones to the rear of the photographer are the Eycott volcanic rocks, intrusions resulting from continents moving together. The landscape around Eycott show these numerous lava flows overlapping each other. This is a nationally important geological area and rather beautiful.
John Rodgers has a very good U Tube film about the area, well worth watching.
Place name. Oak woodland - Viking - Aiket . With thanks to a very persistent John Gorrill who tracked it down after lots of intelligent detective work in the archivist's office. Thanks John.