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rock exposure, Seathwaite
locality:-   Seathwaite
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rock exposure
locality type:-   geological site
coordinates:-   NY23661209
1Km square:-   NY2312
10Km square:-   NY21

MN photo:-  
There is a volcanic bomb in the rock face. The bomb is Andesite lava, ejected from a volcano at Buttermere. The country rock is the tuff, volcanic ash from the eruption.

photograph
CGA83.jpg  Volcanic bomb.
(taken 7.5.2017)  
photograph
CGA84.jpg  Volcanic bomb.
(taken 7.5.2017)  


photograph
CGA85.jpg  Cross bedded tuff nearby.
(taken 7.5.2017)  

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