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| quarries, Cumbria | ||||
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| Cumbria is particularly fortunate in the beautiful green slates, in which the natural
cleavage is across the sedimentation bands - so the sedimentation patterns appear
on the face of the slates. But there are also quarries for limestone, sandstone, various
other slates, granite, etc etc. |
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 Postlethwaite 1877 |
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| references:- |
David, R G &Bramble, G W: 1992: Slate Quarrying Industry in Westmorland, part 2: TCWAAS:
new series vol.92: pp.213-227 Glover, David: 2014: Quarries of Lakeland: Bookcase (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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