OUGS Trip to Lower Carboniferous Far Arnside - many thanks to Northumbria Branch 

My walking stick for scale Limestones and some shales
Trace fossils - zoophycos? Studying beds at Blackstone Point (facing NE)
Rugose corals and my stick for scale Lovely ripple marks!
Corals in the limestone beds Across the mud to the next location
Left hand (northern) side of syncline Line of vugs diagonally from top left to bottom right
Looking at the syncline - this was our next location Vugs in the rocks - calcite filled holes where the rock had been dolomotised
A lot of red haematite at the fault The dipping beds made a good path up to the cliff top
Low thrust fault in foreground, another fault behind The other side of the syncline
Salt marsh has been eroded by change of river channel to reveal fossiliferous beds Fossils beautifully preserved in the rocks
Time for lunch - but first some fossils! Solitary coral and biro
The Urswick forms good clints and grikes Looking NW at the line of the fault - it goes into the trees beyond
Mike Dewey showing us the boundary between the Park and Urswick Limestones This is the line of the Far Arnside fault
Mineralisation in the tensions cracks Mineral vein at the fault
Tension gashes showing fault movement Massive calcite crystals, stained by haematite
Someone's foot conveniently for scale! Dark red mine hidden in the woods on top of the cliff!
This is a huge group of colonial corals This is the entrance to the disused iron mine

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