View of Howgill Fells looking west from Sedgwick Trail car park

Examining junction between Tom Croft Limestone to the left and Ashell Sandstone to the right, both dippng upstream to the right.

Anticline in the Danny Bridge Limestone.

Siphonodendron sp. (colonial rugose corals) in Tom Croft Limestone.

Chert nodules.Chert is a type of cryptocrystaline quartz

The Dent Fault, or one of its subsidiaries. Steeply dipping Carboniferous limestone to the left and Silurian Brathay Flags to the right.

Above the Brathay Flags is a conglomerate containing Silurian clasts. Devonian or Basal Carboniferous?

Another exposure of the conglomerate. Leader, Dr. John Knight in centre

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