P number: | P223030 |
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Old photograph number: | L02529 |
Caption: | Beside old railway embankment, 150 m. SSW of Haywood Farm, N. of Ashbourne. |
Description: | Beside old railway embankment, 150 m. SSW of Haywood Farm, N. of Ashbourne. Close-up view of Ashbourne Gravel near Haywood Farm. The section shows poorly sorted calcite-cemented coarse gravel consisting of sub-angular to rounded pebbles and cobbles up to 20 cm. long. A count of 109 pebbles show 72% Carboniferous Limestone, 26% Carboniferous sandstone and 2% chert and silicified limestone. The Ashbourne Gravel is regarded as pre-Wolstonian in age. |
Date taken: | 01/09/1980 |
Photographer: | Thornton, K.E. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
X longitude/easting: | 417430 |
Y latitude/northing: | 347560 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 292.56 KB; 1000 x 668 pixels; 85 x 57 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 177 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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