Peak District - Wezzit?

[Jenny P]

Lower Cheshire Wood Cave ?

 

[shotlighter]

Lower Cheshire Wood Cave ?

Sorry Jenny, right area but not that.
If it helps, the feature is reputed to be a pericline & Dave is standing partly in it, rather than just by it.

 

[fishes 1]

Yes, that's the place. Home to one of the Peaks only sulphide springs!
Thought the high bedding angle in the roof might have helped.
Over to you!

Hi Brian

There was a sulphide spring in the lower levels of Riber Mine when it was still operating. Doug Nash described it in some detail. I still have samples of red and green calcite that my father collected in the same area.

Regards

Julie

 

[Jenny P]

Cheshire Wood Cave?

 

[Jenny P]

Apes Tor?

 

[shotlighter]

Apes Tor?

Getting closer.

 

[mch]

Dale Mine

 

[shotlighter]

Dale Mine

Is the correct answer!

 

[Jenny P]

Well done MCH.  That was going to be my next try. 

 

[shotlighter]

Well done MCH.  That was going to be my next try.

Yes well done
Dale's got some very nice geology in it. I don't know of any other example of an exposed "pericline" in the Peak.
There's also some nice anastomosis & also a lovely bit of the adit where the roof is the top of an anticlinal fold. The adit follows it for a short distance, no doubt deliberately so.
Anyway, over to you MCH.

 

[mch]

Dale's got some very nice geology in it. I don't know of any other example of an exposed "pericline" in the Peak.
There's also some nice anastomosis & also a lovely bit of the adit where the roof is the top of an anticlinal fold. The adit follows it for a short distance, no doubt deliberately so.

Yes, there's much of interest in there. However, I see from a photograph in John Barnett's paper on Dale Mine in the latest Mining History that the adit is now fitted with a gate, so I guess that only the in-crowd now has access.

Right, well I'd better get looking through my photos for something suitable to post.

 

[shotlighter]

Dale's got some very nice geology in it. I don't know of any other example of an exposed "pericline" in the Peak.
There's also some nice anastomosis & also a lovely bit of the adit where the roof is the top of an anticlinal fold. The adit follows it for a short distance, no doubt deliberately so.

Yes, there's much of interest in there. However, I see from a photograph in John Barnett's paper on Dale Mine in the latest Mining History that the adit is now fitted with a gate, so I guess that only the in-crowd now has access.

Right, well I'd better get looking through my photos for something suitable to post.

I've not been in for several years but the gate did have a "Derbyshire lock" on it.
edit; I should add that access is very contentious.
The people who pay to fish that stretch of river, get VERY upset about the slit that invariably enters the river, as a result of people wading up the adit. It looks really obvious & apparently upsets the fish.

 

[mch]

Ah well, if you can still get in with a Derbyshire key that's OK. It must be over 30 years since I was last there.

 

[mch]

Here we are then (rare photo with me in it!).

 

[fishes 1]

Are we in the Via Gellia?

 

[ditzy 24//7]

Is it silver eye?

 

[CJ]

I'd have said Silver Eye too

 

[mch]

No, not Silver Eye, but we are in the Via Gellia.

 

[pwhole]

Haha, take your pick! I'm not guessing in case I get it right again. Appreciate you taking the time to wash the loose deads though

 

[mch]

Haha, take your pick! I'm not guessing in case I get it right again. Appreciate you taking the time to wash the loose deads though

I just can't help cleaning muddy deads!