Newquay district - Sheet Explanation for sheet E346
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Sheet Explanations provide a brief description and interpretation of the geology of the relevant BGS 1:50 000 scale map sheet area. More detailed geological information for the same area is available via the Sheet Descriptions.
Sheet Explanations are printed A5 booklets and are available either singly, or as a pack together with the relevant 1:50 000 scale map, where this map is available.
The Newquay district is presently renowned as a tourist destination, with the spectacular landscape and scenery of north Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast. However, in previous centuries it was more famous as an industrial area, long associated with the metalliferous mining industry. Devonian sedimentary rocks crop out through most of the district. These were deposited in a series of rift basins situated on an extending continental plate margin and record differing sedimentary environments, from lacustrine through to deep marine. The Devonian rocks were subsequently deformed in the Variscan Orogeny: a northward propagating mountain-building event that formed the regional east–west strike of the geology across the Cornish peninsula.
Author Hollick, L M
ISBN 9780852727522
Sheet(s) Covered E346
Year Published 2014
