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Eycott Volcanic Group

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The Eycott Volcanic Group is a group of volcanic rock formations of Ordovician age (Llandeilo to Caradoc epochs) named after the locality of Eycott Hill in the English Lake District. [1]

32 relations: Andesite, Arsenic, Barium, Binsey, Bothel, Cumbria, Breccia, Caldbeck, Caradoc, Carboniferous, Copper, Cumbria, Devonian, England, Epoch (geology), Greystoke Castle, Group (stratigraphy), Inliers and outliers (geology), Lake District, Lava, Lead, Llandeilo, Melmerby, Cumbria, Mungrisdale, North Pennines, Ordovician, Sandstone, Sill (geology), Skiddaw Group, Tuff, Unconformity, Vein (geology), Volcano.

Andesite

Andesite is an extrusive igneous, volcanic rock, of intermediate composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.

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Barium

Barium is a chemical element with symbol Ba and atomic number 56.

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Binsey

Binsey is a hill on the northern edge of the Lake District in Cumbria, England.

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Bothel, Cumbria

Bothel is a small village in Cumbria, North-western England.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix that can be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments.

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Caldbeck

Caldbeck is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale, Cumbria, England.

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Caradoc

Caradoc Vreichvras (Modern Caradog Freichfras, "Caradoc Strongarm") was a semi-legendary ancestor to the kings of Gwent.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Epoch (geology)

In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age but shorter than a period.

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Greystoke Castle

Greystoke Castle is in the village of Greystoke west of Penrith in the county of Cumbria in northern England.

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Group (stratigraphy)

A group in stratigraphy is a lithostratigraphic unit, a part of the geologic record or rock column that consists of defined rock strata.

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Inliers and outliers (geology)

An inlier is an area of older rocks surrounded by younger rocks.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Lava

Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Llandeilo

Llandeilo is a community and town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated at the crossing of the River Towy by the A483 on a 19th-century stone bridge.

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Melmerby, Cumbria

Melmerby is a village in Cumbria, England.

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Mungrisdale

Mungrisdale is a small village and civil parish in the north east of the English Lake District in Cumbria.

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North Pennines

The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Sill (geology)

In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.

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Skiddaw Group

For the Skiddaw group of hills, see Skiddaw Group The Skiddaw Group is a group of sedimentary rock formations named after the mountain Skiddaw in the English Lake District. The rocks are almost wholly Ordovician in age (Tremadoc through Arenig to Llanvirn epochs) though the lowermost beds are possibly of Cambrian age. This rock sequence has previously been known as the Skiddaw Slates, the Skiddaw Slates Group and the Skiddavian Series. Its base is not exposed but in its main outcrop area, it is considered to be in excess of 5000m thick though less elsewhere. It consists largely of mudstones and siltstones with subordinate wacke-type sandstones. Their main occurrence is within the northern and central fells of the Lake District, either side of the major ENE-WSW aligned Causey Pike Fault, but inliers are found at Black Combe in the south of the Lake District and at Cross Fell in the North Pennines. In the Northern Fells of the Lake District, the Skiddaw Group comprises five formations of which the earliest/lowest is the Bitter Beck Formation. This is succeeded by the Watch Hill Formation, then the Hope Beck, Loweswater and Kirk Stile Formations in ascending order. The inlier at Cross Fell comprises just the Catterpallot Formation, a wacke sandstone which is the rough equivalent of the Watch Hill Formation, itself a wacke sandstone as is the Loweswater Formation. Within the Central Fells are the Buttermere Formation and the overlying Tarn Moor Formation. These are matched by the Murton Formation (grey slates and thin sandstones) and the Kirkland Formation (mudstones with tuffs and lavas) at Cross Fell. The Buttermere Formation is interpreted as an olistostrome. The Tarn Moor and Kirkland Formations contain some volcaniclastic rocks. The inlier to the south at Black Combe contains the wackes of the Knott Hill Formation. The group underlies the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the southern and central Lake District and the Eycott Volcanic Group in the northern part of the district. The sequence was affected by low-grade regional metamorphism and deformation associated with the Acadian Orogeny, causing the dominant fine-grained parts of the sequence to become slates. The resulting slaty cleavage is parallel to the axial plane of regional folds.

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Tuff

Tuff (from the Italian tufo) is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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Unconformity

An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous.

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Vein (geology)

In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eycott_Volcanic_Group

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