Howgills
Bowderdale, East Cumbria
Rounded hills with grooves and valleys eroded by water
metamorphism
Porth Leaven, Corwall
A rock of tourmaline and quartz formed on the conjunction of the granite and
Devonian sediments. The angular jointing rounds and softens in winter storms. It
has left human forms which weather in their turn to boulders on the beach. The
outcrop has now disappeared following a rock fall.
roots
West side of Windermere, Lake District
Water has eroded the soil from the roots of the tree.
rock pool
St Just, Cornwall
Strong colours in the rock pools stand out against the limpets on the black
rocks.
groyne
Pevensey Bay, Sussex
Wood erected to stop long shore drift of the sand and flint pebbles, is being
eroded by the battering of the waves and the same shore deposits.
groyne and sand
Pevensey Bay, Sussex
The sand and waves has not yet eroded the wood.
new wood
Middleton on Sea, Sussex
new wood
faces the sea
with dark shaddows
Middleton on Sea
Middleton on Sea, Sussex
Typical south coast preventative measures to stop erosion.
Eel Crag
Coledale, North Lake District
Very hard volcanic rocks have been exposed by glaciers in the last ice age.
Hen Cloud
Staffordshire Moorlands
Millstone Grit was deposited by large rivers and deltas in the Upper
Carboniferous. The vertical jointing has given steep faces attractive to
climbers.
bracken unfolding
Borrowdale, Lake District
Warm spring weather brought out people sunbathing for the first time that year.
The peeling of clothes has similiarities with the unfurling of the bracken.
Tilberthwaite Quarry
Tiberthwaite near Coniston, Lake District
This area was once the site of exploding volcanoes, the sediments of which were
often transported by water. The slate has formed under regional pressure from
the movement of continents.
chalk cliff
Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
Chalk is a very white limestone mostly composed of the shells of tiny creatures so
small they can only be seen under a electron microscope
orchids
Winskill rocks, Settle, Yorkshire
Unspoilt area of limestone rocks with Pen y Ghent in the background
sheep in field
Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
Craggy outcrops of limestone punch through the grass. Ash trees are common and
the fields are used for sheep and cattle
boys bathing
Borrowdale, Lake District
The heart of the Lake District is near the wettest place in England. The boys
play on the rocks and in the river
laughing flint
Middleton on Sea, Sussex
The flint has recently eroded from the chalk below the waves. The cobbles retain
a white surface from the chalk, but where they are chipped the black micro-crystalline
surface makes the flint look like faces.
St Margaret's Bay
Kent
The vertical chalk cliffs have eroded to show horizontal bands of flint. The
flint weathers out to give a hard black pebbly beach.
marron grass
Dunes north of Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland
The grass is stabilising the dunes. The black rock in the distance is the Whin
Sill, a horizontal slab of basalt below ground stretches all the way to Cumbria
tin mine
St Just, Cornwall
An old small mine is visible in the cliffs. The miners have left columns of
tourmaline crystals to support the roof. The cassiterite or tin ore is found in
the tourmaline layer.
Jean H
Robinson, north Lake District
A meal in very hot weather near the top of Robinson where there was water.
slate quarry
Snowdonia
A slate quarry in the hills of Snowdonia is from sedimentary clay not from
volcanic rocks. Heat and pressure has turned this mud to slate.
Silurian stones
Windermere, Lake District
These rocks have small nodules of limestone which have dissolved in the acid lake
water producing animal like heads.
Windermere
South Lake District
Springtime by the lake
runnels
Hutton Roof, Cumbria
The rock in this limestone pavement is dipping at about 45 degrees. Limestone
pavements are supposed to be nearly horizontal!
River Duddon
Dunnerdale, Lake District
Clear water over a small waterfall
The Roaches
Staffordshire Moorlands
Millstone grit is jointed and eroded with steep edges on which people climb. The
coarse sandstone and pebbles were deposited in rivers and deltas as the fresh
water entered the sea.
ploughed field
St Just, Cornwall
The regular lines of ploughing have been interupted by the small ruin in the
centre of the field.
rain
Ding Dong Quarry, West Country
A lone enthusiast looks at puddles
arch with boulders
Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
The sea has cut an arch through the steep cliffs
Craster inlet
Nothumberland
Black Whin sill rocks, have altered colour as the iron oxiodises red and the
surfaces become spotty with lichens.
raucous birds
Flamborough Head, Northumberland
Birds on the cliffs south of North Landing have turned white chalk dull
brown. The birds remain white.
couple colour
Gill Head, Wasdale, Lake District
"for skies of couple colour as a brindled cow" quote Manley Hopkins.
arch 2
Flamborough Head
Erosion by the sea of the steep chalk cliffs has left an arch
sheep field
Tearnside, Cumbria
The limestone outcrops in the grass. Ash trees flourish in this landscape
and sheep and cattle crop the fields.
chalk cave
Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
A pristine cave washed daily by the sea.