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 [...]
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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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 [...]