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Posted: 14 Aug 2009


Taken: 13 Aug 2009

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1/100 f/9.0 50.0 mm ISO 100

Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL


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'Millstone Grit'
Namurian
Kinderscout Grit
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Crook Hill
geo:lat=53.38276
Peak District National Park
Dark Peak
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England
Derbyshire
geo:lon=-1.731626


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Crook Hill

Crook Hill
This is a view of the twin summits of Crook Hill, near Ladybower in the Peak District. Although not of great elevation compared with the heights all around, Crook Hill's airy rocky summits offer a lovely viewpoint of the surrounding moors and gritstone edges.
The NW summit (nearest in this photo) at 382 m is slightly higher than the SE summit (374 m).

The summits are residual tors composed of Kinderscout Grit (Namurian) with a solifluction mantle of gritstone blocks all around.

The SW faces of both tors display the steepest slopes probably because material removed from the summit by freeze-thaw conditions has been steadily removed by successive phases of gelifluction and/or solifluction into the deep Ashop valley below. In contrast, on the NE slopes with an aspect facing away from most of the sun's warmth, the material has not been transported so far from its source and remains mostly piled up around the summit tors.

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