Chris Wilson is offering a car share from Keswick to Crinkle Crags. The event starts at Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass summit. NY277027. Starting 10:00
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Event Reminder: Crinkle Crags
Cumberland Geological Society Presents –
From the Winter Lecture Events Programme:
A Visit to Crinkle Crags
7th September 10:00
From Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass summit. NY277027. Starting 10:00.
As the trip to Crinkle Crags is much more physically demanding than usual, those thinking about coming along should be given a good idea of what is planned. Your leader Clive Boulter has created a preview presentation of what can be expected.
The Crinkle Crags event will have a fine weather and poor weather alternative. Below you can find the two presentations.
Crinkle Crags Fair Weather Route
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Crinkle Crags Poor Weather Alternative
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Event Report: Old Mines and Carboniferous limestone at Hodbarrow
Old Mines and Carboniferous limestone at Hodbarrow, Near Millom
Led by David Kelly on 13th August 2016
David led 20 of us past the remains of the Hodbarrow Mine on a dry breezy day. Its main ore body, the largest in Cumbria, measured 600m x 600m x 30m and was close to sea level. At first we walked along the flexible Outer Barrier with its watertight puddled clay core skirting the smaller Moorbanks ore body. The rigid Inner Barrier had failed so the main orebody area had flooded when the mine was abandoned. Our lunch stop was in the Red Hills Quarry in the eponymous highly dolomitised limestone. The beach at Haverigg Point had a very varied mixture of interesting erratics and highly coloured furnace slag and clinker. Our final stop was a fossiliferous locality in the Red Hill Limestone exposed in the faulted anticline. It had thumb length crinoid columnals and tennis ball cross sections of gastropods.
Mervyn Dodd
Event Preview: Crinkle Crags 7th September
As the trip to Crinkle Crags is much more physically demanding than usual, those thinking about coming along should be given a good idea of what is planned. Your leader Clive Boulter has created a preview presentation of what can be expected.
The Crinkle Crags event will have a fine weather and poor weather alternative. Below you can find the two presentations.
Crinkle Crags Fair Weather Route
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Crinkle Crags Poor Weather Alternative
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Event Reminder: Storm damage on the River Greta
Event Reminder: Old Mines and Carboniferous Limestone at Hodbarrow Near Millom
Cumberland Geological Society Presents –
From the Summer Events Programme:
Event reminder for 13th August:
Old Mines and Carboniferous Limestone at Hodbarrow Near Millom
Located at Poolside, Haverigg, Millom, Cumbria LA18 4HW, UK
The clue is in the title.
Leader: David Kelly
Events are open to members and non-members. This event is free for members and non-members who wish to ‘try out’ the society.