North Pennines — Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and European Geopark: a Geodiversity Audit

Revised March 2010

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Front cover

Contents

Title page and preliminaries

Introduction

Geological time

The geological evolution of the North Pennines AONB

The North Pennines' place in the development of geological science

The geological framework

Ordovician and Silurian rocks

Devonian rocks

Carboniferous rocks

Dinantian rocks

Namurian rocks

Westphalian rocks

Permo-Triassic rocks

Intrusive igneous rocks

Metamorphic rocks

Geological structures

Mineral veins

Quaternary deposits

Landforms

Karst features

Fossils and palaeontology

Mineral and mineralogy

Geophysics

Geochemistry

Soils

Mineral extraction

The built environment

Frosterley Marble

Spar boxes

Geological models

Geological archives

Geological societies

Selected bibliography

Glossary

Figures