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Feature. The Mam Tor landslip: still moving after all these years
Author(s) -
Arkwright J.C.,
Rutter E.H.,
Holloway R.F.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2451.2003.00392.x
Subject(s) - geology , landslide , favourite , feature (linguistics) , carboniferous , sequence (biology) , paleontology , archaeology , mining engineering , geomorphology , geography , law , linguistics , philosophy , structural basin , biology , political science , genetics
The Mam Tor area (5 km west of Castleton, Derbyshire) is a perennial favourite for field visits by school and university parties and enthusiastic amateurs. As well as displaying the local stratigraphic relationships between the lower Carboniferous limestones and the overlying Edale mudstone/Mam Tor beds sequence, the major slope failure of the eastern side of Mam Tor is spectacularly developed.