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Cross-section of Carboniferous Limestone bored by Jurassic organisms; borings include Gastrochaenolites (some with boring bivalves in place) and Trypanites; Mendip Hills, England; scale bar = 1 cm. The Carboniferous Limestone is a significant landscape-forming rock unit in each of the depositional provinces of Great Britain within which it is ...
Carboniferous: Middle Limestone Group / Simonstone Limestone IVc Cyclothem Formation: Carboniferous: Middle Limestone Group / Three Yard Limestone VII Formation: Carboniferous: Middle Limestone Group / Three Yard Limestone VII Cyclothem Formation: Carboniferous: Middle Limestone Group / Underset Limestone VIII Formation: Carboniferous: Milldale ...
The Eyam Limestone (formerly known as the Cawdor Group, Cawdor Limestone or Eyam Group) is a geologic formation in the Peak District, England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Viséan stage of the Carboniferous period , and represents a marine environment.
Around 360 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, England was lying at the equator, covered by the warm shallow waters of the Rheic Ocean. During this time Carboniferous Limestone was deposited, as found in the Mendip Hills, in the Peak District of Derbyshire, north Lancashire and the northern Pennines.
The geology of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England largely consists of a sequence of sedimentary rocks of Ordovician to Permian age. The core area of the Yorkshire Dales is formed from a layer-cake of limestones, sandstones and mudstones laid down during the Carboniferous period.
Around 360 Ma, at the start of the Carboniferous period, Great Britain was lying at the equator, covered by the warm shallow waters of the Rheic Ocean, during which time the Carboniferous Limestone was deposited, as found in the Mendip Hills, north and south Wales, in the Peak District of Derbyshire, north Lancashire, the northern Pennines and ...
Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England. "Combe" or "coombe" is a word of Celtic origin found in several forms on all of the British Isles, denoting a steep-sided valley or hollow.
The underlying rock is mainly Carboniferous Limestone, which results in a large areas of karst topography, [14] in places overlain with shale and sandstone and topped with Millstone Grit, [42] although to the north and west of the Dent Fault [43] the hills are formed from older Silurian and Ordovician rocks. [44] [45]