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Some Photos from our Regional Geology (Geology 210) Field Trip to the British Isles - May, 1995

England

Photos by Russ Clark.

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The Swinside Inn ... our "home away from home" in the Lake District, NW England

Breakfast at the Swinside Inn. Does this beat camping in the rain, or what ....

Bill Bartels explains the origin of ripple marks, graded bedding, convolute bedding, flute casts, and load casts in the lower Skiddaw Group. One mile east of Upper Lorton at Scawgill Bridge Quarry in the Lake District, NW England.

Glaciated skyline near Buttermere, Lake District, (NW England)

Lake District skyline (NW England)

The Blue Boar Inn, near Chievely, Berkshire, England. Our base for three days (and nights) while we explored south-central England and London.

Dinner at The Blue Boar. The fellow second from the right is Dave Steffe, Albion geology alum, Class of '71. Dave works for RTZ Exploration and Mining, Ltd., in Newbury and gave us a very interesting tour through the facilities at RTZ. (Thanks, Dave!)

Breakfast at the Blue Boar Inn. Bill Bartels preparing for another rough day in the field ...

The Roman baths ... in Bath, England.

Checking out the fossils in the Carboniferous limestone in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, SW England.

Bill Bartels unearths a large Lower Devonian ammonoid on the beach at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

Chalk cliffs along the Dorset coast in south England.

Down in the depths of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, England.

Cross-bedded sandstone at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, England.

A typical day driving in the UK .... a.k.a. "Larry's Nightmare"

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