Discovering Geology: The Lake District

Article Abstract:

The British Geological Survey has released a CD-ROM for geological applications on Lake District, England. The home menu includes several options such as Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Landsat images, Photos, References and Help and Information. The Geology Section contains a geological column, geological maps and maps of mines and minerals, while the Geophysics section offers gravity and aeromagnetic maps. The CD-ROM is aimed at students, environmental scientists and planners. Price is 39.95 pounds sterling.

Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Educational software, Discovering Geology: The Lake District (Educational/training software)

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A pre-caldera plateau-andesite field in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group of the English Lake District

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An analysis was conducted to examine rocks from the Borrowdale Volcanic Group. The group can be classified as part of a single stratigraphic unit, the Birker Fell Formation. Stratigraphic composition is 60% andesitic, with interwoven sequences of volcanic detritus and some exposures of volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks. Analysis shows that the formation entrenched as a sub-aerial plateau-andeiste sequence and conditioned by volcano-tectonic faulting and ignimbrite eruptions.

Geology, Stratigraphic, Stratigraphy, Rocks, Igneous, Igneous rocks, Ordovician period

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An Acadian mountain front in the English Lake District: the Westmorland Monocline

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The Westmorland Monocline, a southeast facing monocline in the English Lake District of UK, is a highly fractured stratigraphic unit that separates the Borrowdale Volcanic Group from the Windermere Group. It is believed that the monocline, which has the characteristics of a mountain front, has been formed as a consequence of a southeast-verging thrust during the Acadian (late lower Devonian) causing an uplift of 8 km combined with a major horizontal shorteningof the crust.

Analysis, Geology, Structural, Structural geology, Geodynamics, Batholiths

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