Beddgelert Fault First reported in a Memoir of the British Geological Survey activity ref. Ramsay 1881. It is a SW-NE trending volcanotectonic fault in North Wales that formed part of a graben system within the collapsed Snowdon caldera structure. It was a focus for later felsic intrusions and hydrothermal activity.[1]
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BeddgelertFault First reported in a Memoir of the British Geological Survey activity ref. Ramsay 1881. It is a SW-NE trending volcanotectonic fault in...
types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults. Many faults may have acted as both normal faults at one time and...
Betws-y-Coed, Aberdyfi on the Dovey (Dyfi) estuary and the small village of Beddgelert each of which attract large numbers of visitors. Other sizeable villages...
twentieth century. In Victorian times the Sygun Copper Mine was opened near Beddgelert in Snowdonia. Ironstone is a component of the Lower Coal Measures rock...
Lliwedd and east of Yr Aran. There are further metalliferous veins east of Beddgelert. These minerals plus gold are known from veins in the Barmouth area. The...
defunct signage) An open crossing on a narrow gauge heritage railway in Beddgelert, Gwynedd, with bilingual warning signage The red and green stop light...
damming during a glacial period. The upper course of the river follows a fault line but at Abergynolwyn must have been blocked by a major landslide, the...
before the line was opened, the only brake van was derailed; as a suspension fault was to blame it was returned to the makers, and for some time the trains...
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