Alternative White Edge 4

This is an experimental treatment of the previous photo.
The vertical scale has been exaggerated three-fold and then the Photoshop 'watercolour' filter applied. Normally I don't bother much with these filters (too much of a gimmick) but in this case I think it works well and might even be considered artistic?? The resulting image, apart from being interesting in its own right, clearly enhances the geological framework of this area. The incised V-shaped notch of the Derwent Valley cut down through a much earlier (Tertiary?) erosion platform is well seen.

This is a view southwards along the low escarpment of White Edge in the Eastern Edges area of the Peak District National Park. The top of Curbar and Baslow Edges are visible off to the right with the Derwent Valley just visible in the distance. To the left of White Edge is Big Moor.

Unlike most of the Eastern Edges which are formed of Namurian 'Millstone Grit', White Edge is comprised of Crawshaw Sandstone which is stratigraphically just above the base of the Coal Measures.

I love the feeling of wide open spaces in the this area, yet we are only a few miles SW of Sheffield.