Roundhay Park Geology Trail: 9

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Leeds, United Kingdom

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Roundhay Park Geology Trail: 9 Reviews | Rating 4.8 out of 5 stars (2 reviews)

Roundhay Park Geology Trail: 9 is located in Leeds, United Kingdom on Roundhay. Roundhay Park Geology Trail: 9 is rated 4.8 out of 5 in the category park in United Kingdom.

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Roundhay

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Checo DogFace

is a really nice place to go take items with you as there are not alot of places to buy things from other then that its awesome and very enjoyable

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Bilbo Bagshawe

Marker 9 (of 10) on the Roundhay Park Geology Trail is called ‘Faulting’. The Gorge suddenly widens to form the wide, shallow sided valley that has been flooded to form Waterloo Lake. The rocks under Waterloo Lake are not shale, but sandstones of the Coal Measures. They are harder than the soft shale that forms the Gorge, so the stream has not been able to erode them so quickly, resulting in the valley sides eroding more evenly. The sudden change of rock is due to a fault that crosses the valley at the head of the Lake. The rocks to the south of the fault have been dropped down by 150 metres and are approximately 1 million years younger than those in the Gorge. This is the Roundhay Park Fault and it forms the northern boundary of the Yorkshire Coalfield.