Wye Valley 2 field trip

Mapping

Mapping exercise over a range of fascinating sites and different lithologies, with the aim of producing a geological map of the area based on a series of guided field observations.

Introduction

Larger map

 

Information and work to carry out for each of the sites on the field trip.

WV1a Red bank and WV1b Boulders in bank

WV2 Pebbly cliff

WV3 Pit beside track

WV4 By large knobbly tree

WV5 Rock face by path

WV6 Gap between cliffs

WV7a King Arthur’s Cave and WV7b White Rocks Quarry

WV8 Rock step in path

WV9 Lord’s Wood Quarry

WV10 Towards river

WV11 Fallen block?

WV12 Green rock

WV13 Just below the path

WV14 Top of the gulley

WV15 Outcrop on narrow path

WV16 Near top of hill

WV17 Long cliff

WV18 Limestone pavement

WV19 Fort cliff

WV20 Just below the common

WV21 Crossing the common

WV22 Beside track to gate

WV23 Narrow hidden gash

WV24 North of fort rampart

WV25 Northern exposure

WV26 Below trig point

WV27 At tracks junction

WV28a Bank on track bend and WV28b Above track by gates

WV29 Below track through gate

WV30 Soil brash in track

WV31 Blocks in sunken track

WV32 Western edge of fort

WV33 Small quarry in woods

WV34 Cliff under trees

WV35 Bank on track bend

WV36 Impressive cliffs

 

Stratigraphic Column

Representative rock samples from area

Lord’s Wood Quarry – shallow water to lagoonal carbonates – includes drone footage of quarry faces