Melton Mowbray district - Sheet Explanation plus 1:50 000 (S&D) map E142 [Booklet and Map Pack]
Price £18.00(no VAT)
This pack contains a Brief Sheet Explanation for the district and the complementary (folded) 1:50 000 scale Solid and Drift map. The A5 booklet and the map are supplied in a transparent wallet.
This Sheet Explanation provides new geological information for the Melton Mowbray area, in the English East Midlands. The central and north-eastern parts of the district are occupied by the Vale of Belvoir. In the south the landscape is more elevated; a 'wolds' landscape of north-facing escarpments and broad, dissected south-easterly slopes which reflect the prevailing dip of the outcropping strata. The rocks at outcrop are Triassic and Jurassic age with a thick cover of Quaternary deposits in places. These deposits conceal the solid rocks over much of the district and were laid down during the Anglian glaciation.
Current mineral production in the area comes from sands and gravels of glaciofluvial and river terrace origin and the underground mining of gypsum at Barrow upon Soar. Coal was mined in the area in the past from the Middle and Lower Coal Measures.
Format Booklet and Map Pack
ISBN XEM142SEM
Sheet(s) Covered E142
Year Published 2003
