Rodded Quartzite
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Rodded Quartzite by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Rodded Quartzite
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 15 Aug 2017
The cliff left of centre is composed of rodded quartzite. This is sandstone which in the course of metamorphism to quartzite has been squeezed and stretched out into these distinctive upward-pointing rods.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.684722
Longitude
-2.695286