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Lakeland rocks and landscape a field guide — Contents

The Cumberland Geological Society

Edited by Mervyn Dodd

(Front cover)

(Rear cover)

(Title page)

Title page and preliminaries

Foreword Chris Bonington

Preface and acknowledgements

Geological background Alan Smith

Field Excursions

1 Lower Carboniferous rocks near Orton, east of Shap Alan Day

2 The Shap Granite Eric Skipsey

3 Windermere Group rocks around Tarn Hows John Gunner

4 The Carboniferous Limestones of Low Furness David Kelly

5 The Windermere Group south of Torver David Kelly

6 The Eskdale Granite Brian Young

7 Volcanic rocks of northern Wasdale Mike Petterson

8 The Permo-Trias of St Bees Headland Tom Shipp

9 The Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Buttermere Valley Mervyn Dodd

10 Glacial features at Rosthwaite in Borrowdale Ken Bond

11 The Armboth Dyke, Thirlmere Morley Burton

12 Quaternary features north of the Kirkstone Pass Richard Clark

13 Landscape development near Keswick John Boardman

14 The Skiddaw Granite north of Threlkeld Tom Shipp

15 The Carboniferous Limestone between Caldbeck and Uldale Tom Shipp

16 The Penrith Sandstone of the Vale of Eden Jim Cockersole

17 Palaeozoic rocks of the Cross Fell district Eric Skipsey

18 The Lower Carboniferous rocks of West Edenside Alan Day

Glossary

Geological and mineralogical museum collections in Cumbria

Further reading

Index

Figures and tables