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| White Scar Cave, North Yorkshire | ||
| White Scar Cave | ||
| locality:- | Ingleborough | |
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| coordinates:- | SD71247452 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7174 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD77 | |
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The cave is mostly through Carboniferous limestone, which in places rests on Devonian
limestone. Some of the passages for visitors are cut through Silurian mudstones. |
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| The cave has a tremendous variety of 'flow stone' |
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Some of the rock is fossiliferous:- |
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 BVW76.jpg Fossil gastropod. (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW92.jpg Fossil ? (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW94.jpg Fossil coral. (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW95.jpg Fossil coral (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW96.jpg Fossil crinoid stems. (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW97.jpg Fossil gastropod. (taken 10.2.2102)  BVW98.jpg Fossil coral. (taken 10.2.2102) |
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