Watchet
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 1.44 mi
- Elevation gain
- 75 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 79 ft
- Max elevation
- 44 ft
- TrailRank
- 16
- Min elevation
- -85 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 42 minutes
- Time
- one hour 50 minutes
- Coordinates
- 422
- Uploaded
- April 14, 2018
- Recorded
- April 2018
near Watchet, England (United Kingdom)
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Itinerary description
Waypoints
Panorama
-10 ft
Stop1 - Watchet
Geological Structures very complex. Recently some of the folds and faults are related to salt. Mercia mudstones. (Red rocks)Transition to tea green marls. Then to blue anchor. Next Rhaetic marine Triassic (grey). All deposited in Bristol Channel
Panorama
30 ft
Location 3 - verticol
Palaeo soil with curves/cracks forming in the soil. The fibrous gypsum seeks out the cracks. Calcite is deposited lower down ‘b/c’ horizon
Panorama
-7 ft
Location 4 - weld. Jurassic blue lias
Jurassic blue lias dipping north at a high angle onto Mercia mudstones. Watchet discontinuity. Down lapping. The Mercia mudstones are dipping to south at variable angles
Photo
3 ft
Location 7 - sandstone in Mercia mudstones
Period of more humility in Triassic Thought the was a carnian pleuvial period. Ties to reptile evolution
Panorama
23 ft
Location 8 - lias folded and sitting on Mercia mudstones
Watchet fault. Highly ductile folds localised halite dissolution. Mercia mudstones passing up into tea green marks and rheatic
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