Cut to the Chase
Satnalls Hills Quarry
The good news is that I’ve been given a grant to compile a geological trail for Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, UK. However, I’ve just checked back and I started the grant application process back at the end of April and only I found out the result last Friday (and I still haven’t got the official confirmation yet). The trail has to be completed and printed by the end of February. I restart teaching the week after next so I’ve only got one week to get the fieldwork done (well finished anyway, as I have been doing some work in the mean time hoping that the grant would come off). Fortunately, not only has the grant arrived, but so has the British summer at long last – just in time for Autumn.
Pebbles, pebbles and more pebbles
Cannock Chase is predominantly Triassic pebbles from a large braided river system unconformably overlying Carboniferous Coal Measures. The area has been quarried for gravel and mined for coal. There is also an interesting glacial history. However, most of the area is covered either by heathland or forest. Exposures are few and far between so a geological trail is going to be challenging.
Eastern Boundary Fault: Coal Measures to left, Triassic to right
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