Bradgate Park, Charnwood Field Trip – Dr Nick Chidlaw

A few miles north west of Leicester the landforms of the east Midlands are conspicuously interrupted by the craggy, locally-wooded hills of Charnwood Forest. Here are found rocks formed from explosive volcanic eruptions about 600 million years ago, together with lavas and igneous intrusions; these comprise the Charnian Supergroup. Most of the rocks are thought ...

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