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  Sedgwick Trail, Garsdale
Sedgwick Trail 10, Garsdale
site name:-   Sedgwick Trail
locality:-   Clough River
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   trail point
coordinates:-   SD69369149
1Km square:-   SD6991
10Km square:-   SD69

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BWY81.jpg  View from the marker post.
Brathay Flags and conglomerate.
(taken 27.7.2012)  
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BWY82.jpg  Brathay Flags and conglomerate.
(taken 27.7.2012)  
The fine grained mudstones on the left, upstream, are Brathay Flags, deposited in the Silurian period about 435 Myrs ago, dip about 62 degrees. Downstream, on the right, is a conglomerate at a shallow dip angle (very hard to see), deposited much later after the brathay flags had been tilted and eroded. It was probably laid down in desert conditions, perhaps in the Devonian or late Carboniferous period.
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