geological guide to South East Cornwall

[with] laminated illustrated guides to the rocks, minerals and fossils & 3 geological trails

by John Macadam

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Published 1998 by Caradon District Council in Caradon .
Written in

Subjects:

• South West Coast Path (England) -- Guidebooks.,
• Cornwall (England : County) -- Guidebooks.

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Edition Notes

Statement	by John Macadam.
The Physical Object
Pagination	1 folder + 6 laminated sheets :
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL18431706M
ISBN 10	0948410027

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altered sedimentary shales and slates of the outer zone, mainly in North and East Cornwall. Along the southerly coast appear some differences, including most of the Lizard peninsula, where granite-gneiss, gabbro, serpentine and hornblende-schist, among others, make a fascinating geological File Size: 1MB. Most rivers in the region flow south to the English Channel. The poorly drained and wet higher parts of the region, usually above m, contain blankets of peat a few metres thick. This region lay beyond the extent of the ice-sheets that have dominated the evolution of the British landscape over the past 2 to 3 million years. Bedrock geology.

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  The map data is also available at the smaller scale of , The website allows professional and amateur geologists to pull the information into virtual globe software which enables them to manipulate it further and mesh it with other types of data.. At the , scale, geological details down to about 50m on the surface can be resolved - essentially street level.   Gun and drugs seized during two police raids in south east Cornwall Devon and Cornwall Police Sector Inspector for Liskeard, Looe, Saltash . NORTH CORNWALL TRAILS with GEOLOGICAL INTEREST along the coast from BUDE to BOSCASTLE Ref. OS Explorer Map Bude, Boscastle & Tintagel SETTING THE SCENE. The geological origins of the area date back to the Upper Devonian ( Ma) in the south and the Carboniferous Period (Ma) in the north of the region. The area then lay just.