So I have been doing a lot of hillwalking lately, and some of the best bits have been finding interesting gelogical features. Some examples:
- The transition in the Brecon Beacons from Picws Du (red sandstone), to Garreg Las (brilliant limestone with a very strange bedding pattern). The next peaks over had little caves, and one even had some Hart£s tongues hiding out at c. 500m altitude. The limestone slabs on Garreg Las would be amazing rock climbs were they not horizontal.
- From Pillar to Haycock and Iron crag, the rocks kept changing from granite to rhyolite. I found it totally awesome to have these two rock types next to each other. Coming off Kirk Fell there was a bright red / purple vein of what seemed to be rhyolite. Maybe the colour came from re-melted slate? Where did it come from?
- Creigiau Gleision. Massive quartz vein at the top, but equally impressive was finding totally rounded slate pebbles at the shore of the reservoir (where did they come from?). It was stunning to see the perfect egg blobs of rock shear perfectly in half.
So anyway, if you have any similar recommendations for geology porn hills, or stories - please add them here!
I£ve been recommended Ben Starav as it apparently has a massive quartz ridge.
Also sorry for anyone who opened the thread thinking it was about pleasuring yourself on the hill... That’ll be another thread
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