List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Safety Notes

List of Figures

Introduction

Itineraries

1.1 Skiddaw Group structures and intrusions around Beek Wythop, Bassenthwaite

1.2 A short walk into a watery cataclysm: Sourmilk Gill in Seathwaite, Borrowdale

1.3 The Carboniferous, Asbian-Brigantian, Yoredale Cycle deposits in the Caldew Valley

1.4 The Early Carboniferous Leahill Cyclothem, Coombe Crag Gorge

1.5 Pennine Coal Measures Group and Warwickshire Group of the Whitehaven to Lowca area, West Cumbria

1.6 The Permian and Triassic Rocks of West Cumbria

1.7 Quaternary Landforms of Upper Borrowdale

1.8 Relict Rock Slope Failures in the Upper Buttermere Valley

1.9 Holocene features of the Ravenglass Estuary

1.10 The Building Stones of Keswick

1.11 Local Geological Sites in Cumbria

References

Glossary

Index

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Safety Notes

List of Figures

Introduction

Itineraries

2.1 The margin of Langdale Caldera: volcanic rocks of Side Pike

2.2 The Langdale Caldera

2.3 The Windermere Supergroup in the SW Lake District

2.4 A Geological Cornucopia: a transect of the Dent Fault Zone at Taythes

2.5 The Windermere Supergroup in the Broughton in Furness and Gawthwaite area, south Cumbria

2.6 The Shap granite and its surroundings: a small granite with a big story

2.7 Trowbarrow Quarry: a late Asbian reference section of the South Cumbria-North Lancashire carbonate platform, and the 'Silverdale Disturbance'

2.8 Westmorland Dales Upper Eden Valley-a classic Carboniferous area

2.9 Carboniferous Limestone of Kendal Fell

2.10 The Northern Pennine orefield: geology, mineralisation and landscape around Nenthead

2.11 The Permian Rocks of the Vale of Eden

2.12 The Building Stones of Kendal

References

Glossary

Index