Whinstone is a quarryman’s term for a variety of hard, dark-coloured, rocks including basalt and chert. Here, in the Tees Valley and Cleveland, the name refers to a hard rock that is very different from the soft sedimentary strata which make up the majority of the area’s underlying geology.
Around 58 million years ago, as [...]
Mammoth lived on most of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere during the last big ice age 70-10,000 years ago. Woolly Mammoths were about the same size as Indian elephants are today and covered in a layer of coarse hair. They are a good indicator of a cold climate and tundra or Steppe [...]
Grid Reference NZ 690 127
BGS Sheet 34
OS Sheet 94
Forwarded as RIGS 30/09/2003
View of Freebrough Hill from the lay-by on the A171.
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Site Status
Description of Geodiversity: An outlier of nearby Moorsholm Rigg to the south with its summit reaching to 250m above sea level and 50m above the surrounding moorland. Freebrough Hill [...]
Grid Reference NZ 469 307
BGS Sheet 27
OS Sheet 93
Forwarded as RIGS 30/09/2003
Site Description
Site Status SNCI
Description of Geodiversity Natural river-cliff exposure of fluvio-glacial deposits. The cliff reveals an exposure of middle sand, gravels and clays.
Literature References The Geology of the Country Between Durham and West Hartlepool – Dennis Smith 1967
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Access and [...]
Grid Reference NZ 465 146
BGS Sheet 33
OS Sheet 93
Forwarded as RIGS 30/09/2003
Site Description
Site Status SNCI
Description of Geodiversity Stream bed exposure of the Cleveland Dyke
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Site Map
Site Assessment
Access and Safety
Comments
Rating
Safety of access
On footpath from industrial estate
10
Safety of exposure
On opposite riverbank footpath
10
Restricting conditions
High flow episodes obscure exposure
6
Multiple exposure
Mercia mudstone exposure downstream
7
Note
It is strongly [...]