Tuesday 4 April 2017

Evidence of ancient earth movements on Rosthwaite Fell

These are the summit rocks on Bessyboot. Notice the diagonal planes from top left to bottom right. These will be layers of ash. I think from previous reading that we are somewhere on the edge of the ancient Scafell Caldera. They may have settled in water perhaps and so they would have been laid horizontally. But the fact that they are at an angle now is evidence that the whole earth must have tilted sideways. Notice that later pressures have split the rock vertically. Evidence of ancient earth movements...
 But in places the rocks have also split along the bedding planes.