Slate Wall
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Slate Wall by Dawn Faith Worrall as part of the Geograph project.
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Slate Wall
Image: © Dawn Faith Worrall Taken: 1 Apr 2007
This garden wall is built from locally quarried slate. Slate formed about 400 million years ago during massive earth movements when sea bed mud was metamorphised by heat and pressure into slate. Once an important part of the Welsh economy few slate mines are still active today.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.086702
Longitude
-4.500153