Newquay district map pack -.Sheet Explanation for sheet E346 plus 1:50 000 (B&Sup) map [Map Pack]
Price £18.00(no VAT)
This pack contains a Sheet Explanation for the district and the complementary 1:50 000 scale Bedrock Geology and Superficial Deposits map (folded). Sheet Explanations provide a brief description and interpretation of the geology of the relevant map sheet area.
The A5 Sheet Explanation booklet and the map are supplied in a transparent wallet. While it is possible to buy the map and Sheet Explanation separately, buying them together as map pack saves you £3.
The sheet explanation presents an account of the geology of the district covered by geological 1:50,000 Sheet 346 Newquay. 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.
[Map Pack]
Format Map Pack
ISBN 9786000009359
Sheet(s) Covered E346
Year Published 2014