For the Skiddaw group of hills, see Skiddaw Group The Skiddaw Group is a group of sedimentary rock formations named after the mountain Skiddaw in the English...

Skiddaw is a mountain in the Lake District National Park in England. Its 931-metre (3,054 ft) summit is the sixth-highest in England. It lies just north...

Ocean began to close. Initial deepwater sedimentation recorded by the Skiddaw Group was followed by the development of a continental arc caused by the subduction...

Manx Group are very similar to the equivalent features of the Skiddaw Group in the Lake District and the Ribband Group in SE Ireland. This group is thought...

of the group is an unconformity with the overlying Windermere Supergroup. The lower boundary is an unconformity with the underlying Skiddaw Group. The outcrop...

so-called 'Westmorland Plateau' to the north of the Howgills. Hills are grouped as topographically as possible, according to their 'parent Marilyn'. The...

valley of Borrowdale from the summit. It is the least mountainous of the Skiddaw fells, the summit being almost entirely devoid of rock. The slopes of Latrigg...

England, four kilometres north-west of Keswick. It forms part of the Skiddaw range in the northern part of the national park and the slopes are heavily...

locality of Eycott Hill in the English Lake District. The group overlies the Skiddaw Group and is unconformably overlain by a variety of different Devonian...

Borrowdale Volcanic Group, formed during the Ordovician Period, roughly 450 million years ago. This rests on shales of the older Skiddaw Group, which were encountered...

highest: Scafell Pike (978 m (3,209 ft)), Helvellyn (950 m (3,120 ft)) and Skiddaw (931 m (3,054 ft)). The region also contains sixteen major lakes. They...

ago. Two major groups of Ordovician rocks are represented on and around the fell: the Skiddaw Group and the Borrowdale Volcanic Group. On the lower ground...

common with much of the Northern Fells, the Kirk Stile Formation of the Skiddaw Group predominates. This is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with...

sedimentary rocks of the Ravenstonedale Group and, beneath them, the metamorphosed slates and sandstones of the Skiddaw Group which date from the Ordovician period...

1999, A comparison of the Ribband Group (south-eastern Ireland) to the Manx Group (Isle of Man) and Skiddaw Group (north-western England) in: Woodcock...

Skiddaw Group. It juxtaposes two successions dominated by mudrocks that are of similar age. To the north of the fault, the Ordovician Skiddaw Group is...

Glenderamackin and St John's Beck. Keswick is in the lee of the Skiddaw group, the oldest group of rocks in the Lake District. These fells were formed during...

group (3). The distant skyline continues over the Kielder Forest hills (55) to reach The Cheviot (75) before it is interrupted by the Skiddaw group (6)...

Carl Side is a fell in the English Lake District, forming a part of the Skiddaw "family" near the town of Keswick and prominently visible from its streets...

part of the Cumbrian Mountains in the Lake District of England. Including Skiddaw, they occupy a wide area to the north of Keswick. Smooth, sweeping slopes...

park and is part of the Skiddaw group of fells. Long Side which reaches a height of 734 metres (2,408 ft) is located on Skiddaw’s north western ridge, the...

view. The rocks of Clough Head belong to both the Skiddaw Group and the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, both of which date from the Ordovician period. An...

in Wales. The name was proposed by Adam Sedgwick in 1846 (as "Tremadoc group"). The GSSP for the beginning of the Tremadocian is the Green Point section...

Tributaries SSSI (overlaps the SAC) Buttermere Fells SSSI Armboth Fells SSSI Skiddaw Group SSSI Helvellyn & Fairfield SSSI Wasdale Screes SSSI (Wast Water is a...

sediment beds. To the north west of the unit lies the Cambro-Ordovician Skiddaw Group, a sequence that formed on the Avalonian continental margin, composed...

Underlying the andesite lavas of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group are the mudstones of the Skiddaw Group of rocks. These were encountered in the lowest workings...

Tremadocian. The Group is the equivalent of north-west England's Skiddaw Group and south-east Ireland's Ribband Group. The Manx Group is poorly fossiliferous...

The entire hill is formed from Ordovician-age rocks assigned to the Skiddaw Group. The summit ridge and northern slopes are composed of the laminated...

Through Whinlatter Pass there is also a sight of the Helvellyn range and Skiddaw group. This is made up for by the northward views to the Solway Firth and...

The three ranges of the Northern Fells are the Skiddaw massif to the southwest, the Blencathra group including Mungrisdale Common to the south east and...