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rock exposure, Wythop
locality:-   Wythop Woods
civil parish:-   Wythop (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rock exposure
locality type:-   geological site
coordinates:-   NY21622802 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2128
10Km square:-   NY22
SummaryText:-   presumably exposed when the road was cut through here

MN photo:-  
The rock is in the Skiddaw Group; mudstones, sandstones, etc. These were laid down under the Iapetus Ocean, Lower Orovician period.

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CGA61.jpg (taken 7.5.2017)  
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CGA62.jpg  The cliff face is a cleavage plane, orthogonal to the sedimentation.
(taken 7.5.2017)  


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CGA63.jpg  Alternating sandstone and mudstone sediments; before compression the mudstone would have been thicker.
(taken 7.5.2017)  
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CGA64.jpg  Alternating sandstone and mudstone sediments; notice the mudstone deforms but the sandstone cracks, when folded.
(taken 7.5.2017)  
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CGA66.jpg  Alternating sandstone and mudstone sediments, folded, probably by the Caledonian Orogeny.
(taken 7.5.2017)  
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CGA65.jpg  Two thrust faults.
(taken 7.5.2017)  

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