GY210 Ingleton: Mealbank Quarry visit

	AIMS/OBJECTIVES ITINERARY FIELD EXERCISES TOWN/MAPS MARKS SCHEME PRIOR READING ACCOMMODATION SAFETY EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION 1st YEAR MARKS FINAL REMARKS	GY210 Ingleton Field Course: Meal Bank Quarry visit           We are allowed to visit Meal Bank Quarry by kind permission of the Craven District Council.  This quarry may ONLY be visited at the times scheduled on the field course itinerary, the same provisions apply as for the one-day excursions. In the quarry we will have the opportunity to examine the lithology and attitude of the Carboniferous Limestone, examine the fossil content of this rock unit, and investigate two unusual fossiliferous horizons (click photo above middle) and a palaeosol (click photo above right). On to: ARC Quarry visit Back to: Field mapping exercise Excursion to Troller's Gill Excursion to Sedgwick Geology Trail Please follow the links (left) for further information regarding the field course. Top

Author: Ian Harding.  Last Updated: February 2000   SOC Home | SOES Home  | University Home