Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Quartz Conglomerate

This is the Near Hearkening Rock, an overhanging outcrop of Upper Devonian Quartz Conglomerate, in High Meadow Woods, an outlier of the Forest of Dean. It is so called because you are supposed to be able hear distant sounds (such as conversations or the horse hooves of an approaching army) which are amplified by the shape of the rock outcrop.

The Buck Stone is a remnant edge tor comprised of the Quartz Conglomerate - the basal part of the upper Old Red Sandstone (Devonian). These cross-bedded sediments were deposited in alluvial fan or flash flood deposits, mostly in high-energy rivers draining an arid, mountainous continental area. There are many quartz pebbles, hence the name, but also rock fragments and more exotic pebbles such as jasper, all set in a medium - coarse sand matrix. Although in located in Gloucestershire, England, the Welsh border is very close by, at the bottom of the slope.

The Buck Stone is a remnant edge tor comprised of the Quartz Conglomerate - the basal part of the upper Old Red Sandstone (Devonian). This is the more usual view of the Buck Stone. A more detailed view of the rock surfaces is here: www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024128 Although in located in Gloucestershire, England, the Welsh border is very close by, at the bottom of the slope. The fields in the middle distance and the far landscape are entirely in Wales.