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Happyman wrote:-
The first Pic looks to me like an ancient ( talking about millions of years here) sinkhole.
The rocks around it look like some sort of igneous ( hard - granite or summat) rock that when the earth was being formed pushed its way through either limestone or some other softer rock.
This was eroded or dissolved over the millinea and left the hard rock where you see it today.
The second pic- not sure !
Are you referring to the hill in the background or the small ravine by the wall ?
Mam Tor
You really missed out here
On top of Mam Tor is one of the best Iron age hill forts in the north of England!!!!
Also one of the best Hang-gliding sites up that way as well !!!
Last pic !
You do all these trips in that I presume?
Can see it now - you with a flat hat on backwards and goggles and your lady in a broad brimmed hat with a dust veil !!
Back to your Wastwater pics.
It is not tidal !
The "beaches" that you see are caused by the water level dropping during the non raining times when the atomic power station at Seascale draws enormous amounts of water from the lake for cooling purposes!!!
Still on laptop so cant give absolute definitive info on things though - have to rely on memory !!!
A friend has a spare external hard drive and hopes to download my database for me so I can plug it into this Micky Mouse thing !!!
cheers
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That's enlightening information regarding the sink hole. Comparing the same to an asteroid impact was somewhat variable.
I'll get it right one of these days though.
Re: The second picture, I was looking at it as a whole, both the hill in the background and the ravine by the wall. I have some additional photographs from this area, which show a large area of land which in general appears to have been a hive of activity at some time in the past. I'll post them over the weekend hopefully.
Mam Tor, I have read up a little on the same, extremely interesting. Maybe we should have delved a little more whilst we were up there. However, it was really cold and extremely windy, we only had the most basic of water proof jackets.
We will have to take more appropriate clothing from now on. It's been very cold today in certain locations. I went to Lamack this afternoon to pick up one of my grandsons who was playing football there. It's just to the north of Blackburn. A very exposed spot. It was bitter cold, the rain was quite heavy at times.
I got there in time to watch most of the second half, I enjoyed what I saw of the game, but it was no fun getting saturated on the side line. Flobo, has just turned the Central Heating on as well. Winter is on it's way, no doubt about that.
When did you see us in the Vintage Vauxhall?
I never knew that water was taken from Wastwater for the cooling process at the atomic power station either.
Thanks for that information as well, it's very interesting.
I hope you manage to get your data base downloaded, but you have excellent memory cells.
Appreciated.
Cheers.