Society, 12, 70-78. Hawkstone Park lies at the south-east edge of a shallow elongated basin extending through the North Shropshire and Cheshire Plains. The sandstones, being stronger than the intervening mudstones, stand up from the general low-lying landscape as prominent ridges faced by escarpment...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.606.8305 http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/sgspublications/Proceedings/2007 No_12 70-78 Rayner Hawkstone.pdf |
| Summary: | Society, 12, 70-78. Hawkstone Park lies at the south-east edge of a shallow elongated basin extending through the North Shropshire and Cheshire Plains. The sandstones, being stronger than the intervening mudstones, stand up from the general low-lying landscape as prominent ridges faced by escarpments. These escarpments were displaced in the Jurassic Period, some 60 million years later, by a series of important faults. Copper mineralisation is present, dating from the Tertiary Period, some 100 million years after the faulting, when there was igneous activity associated with the opening up of the North Atlantic. The effect of this locally was to produce hot fluids, rich in copper and barytes, which moved within the groundwater and crystallised out in the sandstones, particularly along fault planes. A geological trail is presented, enabling the visitor to the Park to better appreciate the influence of this geology on the landscape and the features enhanced over the last two hundred years by the Hill family. |
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