P number: | P222203 |
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Old photograph number: | L01248 |
Caption: | Buxton Quarry (Tarmac Ltd.), Hindlow, near Buxton. Looking SW. |
Description: | Buxton Quarry (Tarmac Ltd.), Hindlow, near Buxton. Looking SW. Quarry face in Carboniferous Limestone broken by faulting and by a 'pocket deposit' of Pliocene clay and dark Carboniferous shale which has partially collapsed down the face. Note the general thinness of the overburden, which consists of silty loam with a few cherty limestone fragments. (See also No. L1249.) |
Date taken: | 01/07/1973 |
Photographer: | Thornton, K.E. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
X longitude/easting: | 408320 |
Y latitude/northing: | 369080 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 322.28 KB; 1000 x 786 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 208 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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