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Lankyman
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A cave I've been through quite a few times since aged about fourteen! Here's a picture of a resurgence - but where?
Lankyman
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Short Gill Rising it is! Over to you, Pitlamp. Has much been found there, do you know?
Pitlamp
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It's been dug extensively, with permission from the estate. The problem was always slumping debris; potentially a dangerous site.
Furthest penetration was 12 m in (-6 m) at a pebbly restriction with a tantalising view of easier terrain just ahead. That was in October 2021. Then it rained and the project filled itself in again . . .
I should make clear that, although the above dive was done by me, this was the result of a large group of CDG Northern Section members who worked extensively to open up the site over several years. It could have been any of us who got furthest in. In the end the weather defeated us.
Best reference to the furthest point reached is CDG Newsletter 222 (January 2022) pages 5 & 6.
Let's see if I can rummage out another picture.
Furthest penetration was 12 m in (-6 m) at a pebbly restriction with a tantalising view of easier terrain just ahead. That was in October 2021. Then it rained and the project filled itself in again . . .
I should make clear that, although the above dive was done by me, this was the result of a large group of CDG Northern Section members who worked extensively to open up the site over several years. It could have been any of us who got furthest in. In the end the weather defeated us.
Best reference to the furthest point reached is CDG Newsletter 222 (January 2022) pages 5 & 6.
Let's see if I can rummage out another picture.
Lankyman
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Wherever it is, there's something (geological) going on in front of the figure. The strata on the left looks to have slipped along a fault/joint. I'm not sure but is there moss growing on the rock above (which might suggest somewhere close to daylight)?
Pitlamp
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You're very perceptive! That's not moss - but it's not far from daylight.
Yes, there's a fair bit of geological interest in the picture.
Yes, the displaced bedding plane is clear, so definitely a fault rather than a joint. But this is a "strike slip fault" (i.e. mainly sideways movement) so the actual amount of displacement is a lot more that it appears from this photograph.
The paler rock high up is a porcellanous bed similar to (but not necessarily the same bed stratigraphically as) the better known PB in the GG system.
None of which gives you much in the way of clues. So I'll give you one; the noise made by the pile of rounded pebbles, which rattles away when disturbed, is the original reason for the name of this place.
Yes, there's a fair bit of geological interest in the picture.
Yes, the displaced bedding plane is clear, so definitely a fault rather than a joint. But this is a "strike slip fault" (i.e. mainly sideways movement) so the actual amount of displacement is a lot more that it appears from this photograph.
The paler rock high up is a porcellanous bed similar to (but not necessarily the same bed stratigraphically as) the better known PB in the GG system.
None of which gives you much in the way of clues. So I'll give you one; the noise made by the pile of rounded pebbles, which rattles away when disturbed, is the original reason for the name of this place.
Max bowen
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Not that either
semiretiredcaver
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Last pitch of Goblin route in Sell Gill?
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