https://www.ipernity.com/tag/earthwatcher/keyword/4440162 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/200/FE/AE/1683198.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/earthwatcher/keyword/4440162 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:32:21 +0000 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:32:21 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034460 tag:ipernity.com,2007-03-13,doc-39034460 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:34:35 +0000 1997-05-17T12:00:00+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034460"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/60/39034460.add3d0b1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="157" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The Keptie Hills in Arbroath is a good example of an esker. <br /> <br /> Eskers are formed from rock debris deposited by meltwater in a sub-glacial meltwater tunnel. The confines of the glacier ice means that the deposits are closely constrained and tend to build upwards rather than spreading out. When the glacier finally melts away, the esker is left as a sinuous ridge of gravel and sand. They often superficially resemble railway embankents and can be many miles long. <br /> <br /> Scanned from Kodachrome 64 transparency film, taken with a Zenit 'E'.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://loc.alize.us/#/flickr:419780743" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">See where this picture was taken.</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72157594165549916/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[?]</a><br /> <br /> --------------------<br /> Here's a photo of a sub-glacial tunnel on Mt Ranier in Washington, USA, taken by Flickr member Tom. <br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazybeagle/409343860/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com/photos/lazybeagle/409343860/</a><br /> You can see the debris in the tunnel floor which may eventually become an esker.</div> The Keptie Hills esker, Arbroath, Scotland <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034460"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/60/39034460.add3d0b1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="157" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The Keptie Hills in Arbroath is a good example of an esker. <br /> <br /> Eskers are formed from rock debris deposited by meltwater in a sub-glacial meltwater tunnel. The confines of the glacier ice means that the deposits are closely constrained and tend to build upwards rather than spreading out. When the glacier finally melts away, the esker is left as a sinuous ridge of gravel and sand. They often superficially resemble railway embankents and can be many miles long. <br /> <br /> Scanned from Kodachrome 64 transparency film, taken with a Zenit 'E'.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://loc.alize.us/#/flickr:419780743" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">See where this picture was taken.</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72157594165549916/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[?]</a><br /> <br /> --------------------<br /> Here's a photo of a sub-glacial tunnel on Mt Ranier in Washington, USA, taken by Flickr member Tom. <br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazybeagle/409343860/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com/photos/lazybeagle/409343860/</a><br /> You can see the debris in the tunnel floor which may eventually become an esker.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302 tag:ipernity.com,2011-04-14,doc-39024302 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:01:10 +0000 2011-03-28T13:21:23+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/02/39024302.94dc7e4e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"></div> Walberswick wind pump, Suffolk <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/02/39024302.94dc7e4e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"></div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024284 tag:ipernity.com,2011-05-04,doc-39024284 Wed, 04 May 2011 08:05:48 +0000 2011-04-11T16:07:50+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024284"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/84/39024284.5a958f45.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="164" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is Hooken beach, just east of Branscombe, Devon.</div> Hooken convergence <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024284"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/84/39024284.5a958f45.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="164" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is Hooken beach, just east of Branscombe, Devon.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024286 tag:ipernity.com,2011-04-21,doc-39024286 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:50:05 +0000 2011-04-11T13:18:10+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024286"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/86/39024286.b3eade4a.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="132" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>River Otter at Budleigh Salterton, Devon</b><br /> <br /> This is the River Otter just east of Budleigh Salterton, taken from the pebble spit which nearly blocks the river mouth. The sea is just behind the camera location. There used to be a harbour here but the great storm of 1824 enlarged and extended the pebble spit so as to nearly block the river mouth completely and the harbour fell into disuse. The estuary today is a nature reserve - an extensive area of salt marsh and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.</div> Cloudscape with River <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024286"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/86/39024286.b3eade4a.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="132" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>River Otter at Budleigh Salterton, Devon</b><br /> <br /> This is the River Otter just east of Budleigh Salterton, taken from the pebble spit which nearly blocks the river mouth. The sea is just behind the camera location. There used to be a harbour here but the great storm of 1824 enlarged and extended the pebble spit so as to nearly block the river mouth completely and the harbour fell into disuse. The estuary today is a nature reserve - an extensive area of salt marsh and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024282 tag:ipernity.com,2011-05-04,doc-39024282 Wed, 04 May 2011 08:06:00 +0000 2011-04-09T14:51:13+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024282"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/82/39024282.0c3e567c.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> This is a view looking up at the landslide area at the western end of Pinhay Bay, east Devon.<br /> The trees are at all sorts of odd angles and some have fallen completely due to the continuing intermittent landslide movements.<br /> <br /> The top of the landslide scar is seen in this photo:<br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280</a></div> Slowly falling trees at Pinhay Bay, Devon <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024282"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/82/39024282.0c3e567c.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> This is a view looking up at the landslide area at the western end of Pinhay Bay, east Devon.<br /> The trees are at all sorts of odd angles and some have fallen completely due to the continuing intermittent landslide movements.<br /> <br /> The top of the landslide scar is seen in this photo:<br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280</a></div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280 tag:ipernity.com,2011-05-05,doc-39024280 Thu, 05 May 2011 07:32:59 +0000 2011-04-09T11:17:36+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/80/39024280.487df4de.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. <br /> <br /> The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland. Mostly this is dense woodland, but occasionally there are more open areas where landslides are still intermittently active, where the larger trees have either been uprooted or have not yet had the chance to mature (as is the case here, viewed from the back scarp face of one of the more recent landslides).<br /> <br /> Just visible on the distant horizon is the Isle of Portland, far across the other side of Lyme Bay.</div> The Undercliff overlooking Pinhay Bay, east Devon <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/80/39024280.487df4de.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. <br /> <br /> The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland. Mostly this is dense woodland, but occasionally there are more open areas where landslides are still intermittently active, where the larger trees have either been uprooted or have not yet had the chance to mature (as is the case here, viewed from the back scarp face of one of the more recent landslides).<br /> <br /> Just visible on the distant horizon is the Isle of Portland, far across the other side of Lyme Bay.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024248 tag:ipernity.com,2012-01-03,doc-39024248 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:10:45 +0000 2011-03-08T14:12:22+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024248"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/48/39024248.64fa052e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> Along the western flank of Mam Tor and Rushup Edge are a series of sink holes where surface waters and streams flowing off the relatively low-permeability Mam Tor Beds and Edale Shales encounter the underlying Carboniferous Limestone. This one is near the old Windy Knoll Quarry. The water disappears underground and flows through an extensive network of cave passages before emerging at Peak Cavern and Russet Well in Castleton.</div> Sink Hole at the base of Mam Tor, Derbyshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024248"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/48/39024248.64fa052e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> Along the western flank of Mam Tor and Rushup Edge are a series of sink holes where surface waters and streams flowing off the relatively low-permeability Mam Tor Beds and Edale Shales encounter the underlying Carboniferous Limestone. This one is near the old Windy Knoll Quarry. The water disappears underground and flows through an extensive network of cave passages before emerging at Peak Cavern and Russet Well in Castleton.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024250 tag:ipernity.com,2012-01-03,doc-39024250 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:10:34 +0000 2010-10-15T14:19:24+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024250"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/50/39024250.04213dc9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> Whitbarrow Scar is the west-facing cliff-like escarpment above which is a fascinating landscape of Carboniferous Limestone crags and limestone pavements at the south-east margin of the Lake District National Park. This portion of Whitbarrow Scar is also known as Chapel Head Scar.</div> Whitbarrow Scar from Witherslack Hall, Cumbria. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024250"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/50/39024250.04213dc9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> Whitbarrow Scar is the west-facing cliff-like escarpment above which is a fascinating landscape of Carboniferous Limestone crags and limestone pavements at the south-east margin of the Lake District National Park. This portion of Whitbarrow Scar is also known as Chapel Head Scar.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024252 tag:ipernity.com,2012-01-01,doc-39024252 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:50:58 +0000 2011-09-21T10:42:58+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024252"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/52/39024252.f323f636.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> <br /> Brown Willy is a somewhat degraded granite tor on Bodmin Moor and at 420 m elevation, is the highest point in Cornwall. The viewpoint is from Little Rough Tor, about 1200 m away to the north west.</div> Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024252"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/52/39024252.f323f636.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> <br /> Brown Willy is a somewhat degraded granite tor on Bodmin Moor and at 420 m elevation, is the highest point in Cornwall. The viewpoint is from Little Rough Tor, about 1200 m away to the north west.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024238 tag:ipernity.com,2012-03-30,doc-39024238 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:24:09 +0000 2011-09-18T14:25:54+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024238"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/38/39024238.5899fd17.240.jpg?r2" width="205" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>Viewed from The Rumps, Pentire Head, Cornwall.</b><br /> Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> One of those bright, blustery Autumn days with crystal clear air which goes to your head like wine.</div> Sevensouls Rock, north Cornwall. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024238"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/38/39024238.5899fd17.240.jpg?r2" width="205" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>Viewed from The Rumps, Pentire Head, Cornwall.</b><br /> Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> One of those bright, blustery Autumn days with crystal clear air which goes to your head like wine.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024236 tag:ipernity.com,2012-04-20,doc-39024236 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:34:24 +0000 2011-09-17T15:51:56+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024236"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/36/39024236.e7a473b1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">A nice example of a tight, nearly isoclinal, upright syncline in the Bude Formation (Upper Carboniferous) at Wrangle Point, Crooklets near Bude in Cornwall.</div> Syncline at Wrangle Point, Crooklets, near Bude. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024236"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/36/39024236.e7a473b1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">A nice example of a tight, nearly isoclinal, upright syncline in the Bude Formation (Upper Carboniferous) at Wrangle Point, Crooklets near Bude in Cornwall.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024232 tag:ipernity.com,2012-04-20,doc-39024232 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:06:19 +0000 2012-03-25T14:25:35+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024232"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/32/39024232.81bb9a27.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Photo taken from in front of the statue of Byrhtnoth, looking south-east down the Southey Creek branch of the River Blackwater at the top of a high spring tide.</div> River Blackwater at Maldon, Essex <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024232"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/42/32/39024232.81bb9a27.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Photo taken from in front of the statue of Byrhtnoth, looking south-east down the Southey Creek branch of the River Blackwater at the top of a high spring tide.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024046 tag:ipernity.com,2010-10-19,doc-39024046 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:53:06 +0000 2010-10-15T11:09:00+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024046"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/46/39024046.a989fa26.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Whitbarrow is a fascinating landscape of Carboniferous Limestone crags and limestone pavements at the south-east margin of the Lake District National Park.<br /> <br /> The photo is a northerly view to its highest point, Lord's Seat, 215 m. On the skyline are some of the higher Lake District fells, from L - R: High Raise (in cloud), Ullscarf, and Seat Sandal on the right with Rydal Fell just visible in front of it. The smooth dome summit of Great Rigg is on the extreme right.</div> Whitbarrow, Lake District National Park <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024046"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/46/39024046.a989fa26.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Whitbarrow is a fascinating landscape of Carboniferous Limestone crags and limestone pavements at the south-east margin of the Lake District National Park.<br /> <br /> The photo is a northerly view to its highest point, Lord's Seat, 215 m. On the skyline are some of the higher Lake District fells, from L - R: High Raise (in cloud), Ullscarf, and Seat Sandal on the right with Rydal Fell just visible in front of it. The smooth dome summit of Great Rigg is on the extreme right.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024034 tag:ipernity.com,2010-11-01,doc-39024034 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:45:28 +0000 2010-10-16T12:52:51+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024034"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/34/39024034.152ea7f9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded (in cropped format) for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> Taken from the Lune Millennium Bridge.</div> St George&#039;s Quay on the River Lune, Lancaster <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024034"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/34/39024034.152ea7f9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded (in cropped format) for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> Taken from the Lune Millennium Bridge.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024012 tag:ipernity.com,2011-02-16,doc-39024012 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:48:56 +0000 2010-09-05T12:43:11+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024012"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/12/39024012.099e749d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="158" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.</div> The &#039;COSCO Ningbo&#039; off Landguard Point, near Felixstowe <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024012"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/40/12/39024012.099e749d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="158" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023994 tag:ipernity.com,2011-02-18,doc-39023994 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:11:22 +0000 2010-09-15T14:11:32+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023994"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/94/39023994.b5352a4d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>A day on the Marloes peninsula 1</b><br /> Pembrokeshire, west Wales.<br /> <br /> Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The distant headland is the northern coast of Skomer Island, with the small islet of the Garland Stone just to its right. Wooltack Point is the nearer visible headland and I was standing on the hillside above Haven Point, just west of Martin's Haven.</div> Skomer Island and Wooltack Point, Pembrokeshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023994"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/94/39023994.b5352a4d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>A day on the Marloes peninsula 1</b><br /> Pembrokeshire, west Wales.<br /> <br /> Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The distant headland is the northern coast of Skomer Island, with the small islet of the Garland Stone just to its right. Wooltack Point is the nearer visible headland and I was standing on the hillside above Haven Point, just west of Martin's Haven.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023974 tag:ipernity.com,2011-02-27,doc-39023974 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:21:23 +0000 2010-09-17T12:05:13+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023974"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/74/39023974.b068ba59.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="179" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is a view west towards Gilman Point from Dolwen Point, near Pendine, Carmarthenshire, west Wales. <br /> <br /> Beds of Carboniferous Limestone dip gently westwards.</div> West from Dolwen Point, near Pendine, Carmarthenshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023974"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/74/39023974.b068ba59.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="179" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is a view west towards Gilman Point from Dolwen Point, near Pendine, Carmarthenshire, west Wales. <br /> <br /> Beds of Carboniferous Limestone dip gently westwards.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023968 tag:ipernity.com,2011-02-27,doc-39023968 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:32:14 +0000 2011-02-12T16:52:36+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023968"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/68/39023968.daca6960.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Average coastal erosion rates for this part of the Holderness coast are in excess of 2.5 metres per year but sometimes a great chunk will go all at once. The main mechanism for the erosion is failure and collapse of the Skipsea Till (grey/brown in the photo) by rotational landslides. The slipped material is readily removed by the sea during storms and high tides, exposing a fresh cliff face which rapidly becomes unstable, eventually failing once more.</div> Narrowing the field - very recent coastal erosion at Skipsea, East Yorkshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023968"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/68/39023968.daca6960.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Average coastal erosion rates for this part of the Holderness coast are in excess of 2.5 metres per year but sometimes a great chunk will go all at once. The main mechanism for the erosion is failure and collapse of the Skipsea Till (grey/brown in the photo) by rotational landslides. The slipped material is readily removed by the sea during storms and high tides, exposing a fresh cliff face which rapidly becomes unstable, eventually failing once more.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023938 tag:ipernity.com,2011-03-21,doc-39023938 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:47:13 +0000 2011-03-13T15:43:16+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023938"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/38/39023938.49a1a080.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>Fields and big sky</b><br /> <br /> This was taken from the ridge of slightly higher ground which joins the twin villages of Everton and Harwell in north Nottinghamshire.<br /> <br /> The view is to the NE over Everton Carr and the broad, low-lying valley of the River Idle, in north Nottinghamshire. The prominent white water tower in the Lincolnshire village of Haxey is visible just right of centre, and further to the right, plumes of steam rise from the steelworks at Scunthorpe. On the far left is the church tower of Misson, with the landscape beyond lying in Yorkshre, towards the Hatfield Moors.</div> Everton Carr and the valley of the River Idle, Nottinghamshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023938"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/38/39023938.49a1a080.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>Fields and big sky</b><br /> <br /> This was taken from the ridge of slightly higher ground which joins the twin villages of Everton and Harwell in north Nottinghamshire.<br /> <br /> The view is to the NE over Everton Carr and the broad, low-lying valley of the River Idle, in north Nottinghamshire. The prominent white water tower in the Lincolnshire village of Haxey is visible just right of centre, and further to the right, plumes of steam rise from the steelworks at Scunthorpe. On the far left is the church tower of Misson, with the landscape beyond lying in Yorkshre, towards the Hatfield Moors.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023942 tag:ipernity.com,2011-03-10,doc-39023942 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:58:38 +0000 2011-03-08T11:07:20+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023942"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/42/39023942.a814cc61.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The orange staining on the stream bed is due to iron-rich water emerging from Odin Sough just to the left of centre. The sough drains water from the old Odin lead mine about 1.6 km away to the west. The mine worked lead ore from veins in the Carboniferous Limestone close to the junction with the overlying dark, pyritic Edale Shales, and the sough itself is driven in the latter for most of its length. It is the oxidation and solution of pyrite (iron sulphide) in the shales and its reprecipitation as ferric hydroxide which causes the orange colouring. <br /> <br /> The main stream on the right of the photo rises near Hollins Cross, and has no contact with mine workings. The circular culvert in the distance merely channels the stream beneath a farm entrance track. <br /> <br /> A closer view of the sough tail is here:<br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023940" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023940</a></div> Odin Sough outfall, Castleton, Derbyshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023942"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/42/39023942.a814cc61.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The orange staining on the stream bed is due to iron-rich water emerging from Odin Sough just to the left of centre. The sough drains water from the old Odin lead mine about 1.6 km away to the west. The mine worked lead ore from veins in the Carboniferous Limestone close to the junction with the overlying dark, pyritic Edale Shales, and the sough itself is driven in the latter for most of its length. It is the oxidation and solution of pyrite (iron sulphide) in the shales and its reprecipitation as ferric hydroxide which causes the orange colouring. <br /> <br /> The main stream on the right of the photo rises near Hollins Cross, and has no contact with mine workings. The circular culvert in the distance merely channels the stream beneath a farm entrance track. <br /> <br /> A closer view of the sough tail is here:<br /> <a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023940" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023940</a></div> Earthwatcher