Geologists Association fieldtrip to the Lake District!

From Friday through Sunday last week Andy participated in the Geologists Association fieldtrip to the Lake District; the three leaders covered a different topic each day. Hugh Tuffen took us through pyroclastics of a very windy Honister area on Friday, Andy on the Visean of the south crop on Saturday, and Ben Kneller battled against rain to go through the Siluro-Ordovician deepwater clastics marking the closure of the Iapetus Ocean on Sunday.  We had a very diverse range of fifteen attendees who brought with them perspectives from virtually all areas of geological application, which made for some very interesting discussion.
Here are two photos, one of leading the party through the jungles of Silverdale, the other of a spectacular parasequence boundary in Holme Park quarry, in which pale cycle top grainstones are overlain (and stained by….) bentonitic palaeosol clays that sit on top of an undulose palaeokartic surface. The clay is in turn overlain by a dark grey bioclastic wacke-packstone which typifies cycle base lithologies. Photos courtesy of Richard Wrigley, whom I must also think for organising the whole event.