A57 road cutting under construction in Woodhouse Rock Sandstone
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A57 road cutting under construction in Woodhouse Rock Sandstone
Image: © S Dumpleton Taken: 1 Jan 1993
This is the cutting excavation for what is now the A57 dual carriageway Beighton bypass, south-east Sheffield. The rock face in the picture is made of well-jointed Woodhouse Rock, a sandstone unit in the Coal Measures (upper Carboniferous). We spent a happy hour measuring rock joints and fracture orientations to form a teaching/research data set. Photo taken with a Zenit E camera on Kodachrome 64 transparency film
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Image Location
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53.350426
Longitude
-1.3552