Jackson, Ian. Cumbria Rocks — 60 extraordinary rocky places that tell the story of the Cumbrian landscape. Newcastle upon Tyne : Northern Heritage, 2022. The richly illustrated and accessible book series of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham Rocks are available to purchase from Northern Heritage.

(Photo 00-1) Front cover. Grange Fell.

(Photo 00-2) Ian Jackson, the author.

(Photo 00-3) Fleetwith Pike.

(Photo 00-4) Fleswick Bay, St. Bees Head.

(Photo 00-5) Saltom Bay and Whitehaven.

(Photo 00-6) Looking southwest across the Vale of Eden from Hartside Pass.

(Photo 00-7) M6 at Tebay looking south. Lunedale.

(Photo 00-8) Looking south down Crummock Water

(Photo 00-9) Rear cover.

(Photo 00-10) 60 sites in 5 themes.

(Photo 00-11) Cumbria's geological journey.

(Photo 01-1) View northwest over the eroded sandstone escarpment of Christianbury Crag

(Photo 01-2) Christianbury Crags.

(Photo 02-1) The Triassic sandstone cliffs and wave-cut platform of Fleswick Bay.

(Photo 02-2) Fleswick Bay.

(Photo 03-1) Roman carvings in a quarry in St Bees Sandstone in the Gelt gorge.

(Photo 03-2) Gelt Gorge.

(Photo 04-1) View southeast over Great Mell Fell.

(Photo 04-2) Great Melt Fell.

(Photo 05-1) The limestone escarpment of Holmepark Fell; the Woodbine Shale lies hidden by scree.

(Photo 05-2) Holmepark Fell.

(Photo 06-1) View southwest over Great Dummacks and Cautley Spout.

(Photo 06-2) Howgill Fells.

(Photo 07-1) View north over Kentmere Tarn.

(Photo 07-2) Kentmere.

(Photo 08-1) Stump of fossil tree in the bed of Kingwater.

(Photo 08-2) Kingwater.

(Photo 08-3) Image of thin section of fossil tree under microscope.

(Photo 09-1) The “Span of Eden” eroded in the Brockram beneath Stenkrith Bridge.

(Photo 09-2) Kirkby Stephen.

(Photo 10-1) Silica veins criss-crossing Penrith Sandstone in Lacy’s Caves.

(Photo 10-2) Lacy's, Caves.

(Photo 10-3) Close-up of rounded and frosted sand grains.

(Photo 11-1) Triassic and Carboniferous sandstone building stones in Lanercost Priory.

(Photo 11-2) Lanercost Priory.

(Photo 12-1) View south towards the Lake District mountains from Pardshaw Crag.

(Photo 12-2) Pardshaw Crag.

(Photo 13-1) Plant fossils in Carboniferous mudstone.

(Photo 13-2) Parton.

(Photo 14-1) The dyke creating a natural weir south of Armathwaite.

(Photo 14-2) Armathwaite.

(Photo 15-1) Carrock Fell viewed from the southeast.

(Photo 15-2) Carrock Fell.

(Photo 16-1) View of Ennerdale from above Angler’s Crag.

(Photo 16-2) Ennerdale.

(Photo 17-1) Eycott Hill lava with vesicles formed by gas bubbles.

(Photo 17-2) Eycott Hill.

(Photo 18-1) View west down High Cup Gill.

(Photo 18-2) High Cup Gill.

(Photo 19-1) View southwest over High Rigg fell.

(Photo 19-2) High Rigg.

(Photo 20-1) Explosive volcanic rocks above Langdale Valley.

(Photo 20-2) Pavey Ark.

(Photo 21-1) Erratic boulder of Shap Granite beside Wet Sleddale Reservoir.

(Photo 21-2) Close-up of Shap granite.

(Photo 22-1) View of Threlkeld Knotts and Clough Head from the north.

(Photo 22-2) Threlkeld.

(Photo 23-1) Disused slate quarry at Tilberthwaite.

(Photo 23-2) Close-up of green slate, Tilberthwaite.

(Photo 23-3) Close-up of green slate, Tilberthwaite.

(Photo 24-1) Geological fault in limestone cliffs at Arnside.

(Photo 24-2) Arnside.

(Photo 24-3) Fossil coral in limestone polished by the sea.

(Photo 25-1) View of Brothers Water and the faults that define the valley from Brock Crags.

(Photo 25-2) Brothers Water.

(Photo 26-1) The line of the thrust fault just south of the summit of Causey Pike.

(Photo 26-2) Causey Pike.

(Photo 27-1) Dufton Pike and Murton Pike viewed from Knock.

(Photo 27-2) Dufton Pike.

(Photo 28-1) View of the Pennine escarpment from south of Melmerby.

(Photo 28-2) Hartside.

(Photo 29-1) Skiddaw Granite altered to greisen in the bed of the River Caldew.

(Photo 29-2) Mosedale.

(Photo 30-1) Almost vertical beds of Carboniferous limestone in the Liddel Water.

(Photo 30-2) Penton Linns.

(Photo 31-1) Folded and faulted Silurian rocks beside the A6 just south of Shap summit.

(Photo 31-2) Shap Summit.

(Photo 32-1) Tilted and deformed Silurian limestones northeast of Tarn Hows.

(Photo 32-2) Tarn Hows.

(Photo 33-1) Slates from the Skiddaw Group of rocks on the side of Trusmadoor.

(Photo 33-2) Trusmadoor.

(Photo 34-1) Typically undulating landscape of the ‘Brampton Kame Belt’ east of Faugh.

(Photo 34-2) Brampton.

(Photo 35-1) Looking south over Glasson Moss from the viewing tower.

(Photo 35-2) Glasson Moss.

(Photo 36-1) View of Glenridding and the alluvial fan from Place Fell.

(Photo 36-2) Glenridding.

(Photo 37-1) Limestone pavement at Great Asby Scar.

(Photo 37-2) Great Asby Scar.

(Photo 38-1) Cave entrance at Hale Moss.

(Photo 38-2) Hale Moss.

(Photo 39-1) Looking down on Striding Edge and Red Tarn.

(Photo 39-2) Helvellyn.

(Photo 40-1) Remains of the rail bridge across the estuary west of Bowness-on-Solway.

(Photo 40-2) Inner Solway.

(Photo 41-1) Glacial moraines at Mickleden in the Langdale valley.

(Photo 41-2) Mickleden.

(Photo 42-1) Ravensglass Estuary.

(Photo 43-2) View southwest over drumlins from the A6 near Skelsmergh.

(Photo 44-1) Glacially smoothed bedrock north of Slater Bridge

(Photo 44-2) Slater Bridge.

(Photo 45-1) Wastwater and its screes from the northwest.

(Photo 45-2) Wastwater

(Photo 46-1) Old buildings and shaft at Florence Mine.

(Photo 46-2) Haematite from Florence Mine image by kind permission of the Natural History Museum, London.

(Photo 47-1) St Bees Sandstone of Furness Abbey.

(Photo 47-2) Furness Abbey.

(Photo 48-1) The Popping Stone beside the River Irthing at Gilsland.

(Photo 48-2) Gilsland Spa.

(Photo 49-1) View northeast over limestone and brickshale workings near Hallbankgate.

(Photo 49-2) Hallbankgate.

(Photo 50-1) Long Meg and her Daughters.

(Photo 50-2) Long Meg.

(Photo 51-1) Block of gypsum and anhydrite from Long Meg mine.

(Photo 51-2) Long Meg Mine.

(Photo 52-1) View west from Loughrigg Fell.

(Photo 52-2) Loughrigg.

(Photo 53-1) Lead and zinc ores (galena and sphalerite) from Nenthead mines.

(Photo 53-2) Nenthead.

(Photo 54-1) Looking down Little Dale from Littledale Edge.

(Photo 54-2) Newlands Valley.

(Photo 55-1) Roughton Gill mines at the head of the Dale Beck valley.

(Photo 55-2) Roughton Gill.

(Photo 56-1) Saltom Pit and St Bees Head.

(Photo 56-2) Saltom Pit.

(Photo 57-1) Looking down on Seathwaite from the graphite mines.

(Photo 57-2) Seathwaite.

(Photo 58-1) Sellafield from Ponsonby Church.

(Photo 58-2) Sellafield.

(Photo 59-1) Fossil ‘vertebrate’ prints in Penrith Sandstone. Taken with kind permission of Tullie House Museum, Carlisle.

(Photo 59-2) Langdale axe. Taken with kind permission of Tullie House Museum, Carlisle.

(Photo 59-3) Langdale axe factory.

(Photo 60-1) Granite erratic boulder at the entrance to Watchtree Nature Reserve.

(Photo 60-2) Watchtree.