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Sutton stone has always been highly regarded: as well as being used in construction throughout the Vale of Glamorgan, it was also shipped over the Bristol Channel to North Devon and North Cornwall, which are both deficient in limestone. A major geological feature of the Upper Carboniferous rocks in south Wales is the south Wales coalfield. The ...
The Carboniferous (/ ˌ k ɑːr b ə ˈ n ɪ f ər ə s / KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) [6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.86 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma.
The sea cliffs of the Pembrokeshire coast provide numerous venues for rock climbing, particularly on the Carboniferous Limestone in the south and the igneous rocks of the north coast. Coasteering is a sport which has grown popular around the coast of the National Park in recent years which makes use of the abundant coastal cliffs.
The peninsula is formed almost entirely from a faulted and folded sequence of Carboniferous rocks though both the earlier Old Red Sandstone and later New Red Sandstone are also present. Gower lay on the southern margin of the last ice sheet and has been a focus of interest for researchers and students in that respect too. Cave development and ...
The exact age of these rocks is uncertain but ranges from the late Devonian into the early Carboniferous. They have been assigned both to the Upper Old Red Sandstone Group and to the Ravenstonedale Group at different times. An early Devonian intrusion of dolerite or microgabbro occurs at Bluecaster to the northwest of Cautley.
Triassic rocks provided the Radyr stone and also the Quarella stone which was worked at Bridgend. [10] Sutton Stone from South Wales' Jurassic outcrop is a highly regarded limestone freestone that has been used in construction throughout the Vale of Glamorgan, it was also shipped over the Bristol Channel to North Devon and North Cornwall which ...
The Carboniferous coals are overlain by Permian and Triassic sediments. [4] The sediments were uplifted and faulted within the Variscan Orogeny , with the land now occupied by East Sussex being a low external fold belt to the main orogeny, which was located within the present day English Channel , [ 5 ] the remnants of the mountain belt can be ...
Rocks originating in the Carboniferous Period underlie the uplands of eastern and north Lancashire. Listed in order of succession i.e. lowermost/oldest first, they comprise the various limestones, mudstones, siltstones and sandstones of the Bowland High Group and Trawden Limestone Group, Craven Group, Millstone Grit Group, Pennine Coal Measures Group and Warwickshire Group.