Bardon Quarry, Leicestershire
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Bardon Quarry, Leicestershire
Image: © peter knudssen Taken: 26 Jun 2005
A beautiful unconformity. The grey rock is Precambrian volcanics (600 million years old) that was covered, resurrected 300+ million years later, worn down and the valleys infilled with Triassic mud/siltstone, buried yet again, then resurrected in 'modern' times to what you see now - palaeovalleys.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.71725
Longitude
-1.327858