First view of the quarry, south of Bolton Abbey Looking south, towards the exposure
After 10 days of heatwave - pouring rain! Close up of the folded bedding
Having sketched in the rain, and drawings turned to papier mache - Distant view of this face - for scale, look at picture below
Off for a closer look This is the face on the other side of the quarry
Much clearer view of the different bedding Big slab of stone with crinoids
Closer-up view of the fold structure Obviously limestone!
All the passengers waved at the lunatic geologists in the rain Trying to follow the line of the bedding and folds
An incidental bonus - steam trains! Right angle fold at the end of the bedding
"Right, students - which way up is this bed?" View to the river, past the fish ponds and mill race
This is a close up of the "other" quarry face Back to Bolton Abbey, still raining
Definitely sedimentary structures - current ripples, anyone? Some sections had uncut stones
Studying the stones of the Abbey More Abbey stones
Igneous - possibly intermediate plutonic? At long last the sun has come out and we can dry off
Studying headstones in the cemetery Ah, this is an interesting one!
Doesn't it look bare without hordes of geology students roaming round with hand lenses? Old cross, c 1880
Bolton Abbey Weathered granite showing quartz
We've been standing beside it all the time - - - All the lads were jumping off this lump of Skipton Moor Grit
At last, the example of contact metamorphism! Boy in water for scale - site of fault
Also good example of deposition in meandering rivers! A last chance to put the final touches to our drawings
Fault is at right, along line of rock (see above) Royanne explains to us about the graben

Thank you, Royanne, for a smashing day!          (Back to geology field trips page)