Great Slab on Bowfell was one of my great days out this year. I had been thinking about a post about coordinates on an inclined plane. But then I found out why it is so flat: volcanic ash settling in water in an ancient caldera lake. This time last year I was in a modern caldera. And the evidence as to why it was a freshwater lake is given on
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