This article covers the modern ceremonial county of Lancashire which includes the boroughs of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen but not those southern parts of the historic county of Lancashire which have since 1974 formed a part of the counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester nor the northernmost part which now forms a part of Cumbria.
The geology of Lancashire in northwest England consists in the main of Carboniferous age rocks but with Triassic sandstones and mudstones at or near the surface of the lowlands bordering the Irish Sea though these are largely obscured by Quaternary deposits.
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part of the counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester nor the northernmost part which now forms a part of Cumbria. The geologyofLancashire in northwest...
Lancashire (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LAN-kə-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the...
The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests...
north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however roughly half of the area falls into the area of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire)...
Carboniferous. Aitkenhead, N. et al 2002 British regional geology: the Pennines and adjacent areas (4th edn) (British Geological Survey, Nottingham) v t e v t e...
Pendle Hill in Lancashire where it forms the sloping plateau summit. Earth sciences portal England portal Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...
faults constitute a zone crossing the backbone of England from west to east commencing near Leck, Lancashire at 54°11′26″N 2°31′38″W / 54.190507°N 2.527339°W...
The Oldham Coalfield is the most easterly part of the South Lancashire Coalfield. Its coal seams were laid down in the Carboniferous period and some easily...
The geologyof Great Britain is renowned for its diversity. As a result of its eventful geological history, Great Britain shows a rich variety of landscapes...
"Origin and structure of Lower Viséan "reef"limestones near Clitheroe, Lancashire". proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 38: 607–638. Kabrna...
Geodiversity Sites in Scotland and Lancashire, and as County Geology Sites in Cornwall and Devon and in the Republic of Ireland. RIGS may be designated for...
portion of the Lancashire Coalfield. Surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington, it is separated from the larger southern part by an area of Millstone...
Pendle Hill is in the east ofLancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is 557 metres...
lifetime. GeologyofLancashire Shale gas in the United Kingdom Unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir Bowland Shale Formation. BGS Lexicon of Named Rock...
This article describes the geologyof the historic county of Northumberland. It does not include that southeastern part of the historic county which has...
sedimentary basin that extends north into Lancashire and south into Shropshire. It assumed its current form as the ice-sheets of the last glacial period melted away...
/ˈbeɪkʊp/) is a town in the Rossendale Borough in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines close to Lancashire's boundaries with West Yorkshire and Greater...
administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble...
April 2020. British Geological Survey 1:625,000 scale geological map Bedrock geology: UK South (5th edn) BGS, Keyworth, Notts GeologyofLancashire v t e...
of the historic county ofLancashire and the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral which was until then part of the historic county of Cheshire. The geology...
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August 2016. British Geological Survey 1:625,000 scale geological map Bedrock geology: UK South (5th edn) BGS, Keyworth, Notts GeologyofLancashire v t e...
The geologyof Hampshire in southern England broadly comprises a gently folded succession of sedimentary rocks dating from the Cretaceous and Palaeogene...
variation in its landscape owes much to the underlying geology, which includes an almost unbroken sequence of rocks from 200 to 40 million years ago (Mya) and...
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