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The Afon Cilieni is a short river which rises on the southern slopes of Mynydd Epynt in Powys, Wales.The name may mean ' the river rising in a small nook'. [1]Its upper reaches are within the military training area of SENTA, the British Army's Sennybridge Training Area.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS headquarters are in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England.
This article describes the geology of the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England which includes the modern administrative county together with the unitary district of Stoke-on-Trent but excludes those areas which were transferred to West Midlands in 1974.
BGS Groundhog Desktop is a software tool developed and made available by the British Geological Survey and used for geological data visualisation, interpretation and 3D geologic modelling. It is available in both free-to-use and commercial editions. Groundhog Desktop is a key part of the BGS's work to develop 3D models of the UK subsurface. [1]
The Ingleton Group is a group of Ordovician turbiditic sandstones, siltstones, conglomerates found within inliers in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.The two inliers are exposed in the valley of the River Doe northeast of Ingleton and at Horton-in-Ribblesdale to the east.
Panorama of part of the Snowdon Massif including Snowdon (centre right) taken from Mynydd Mawr.The Glyderau are visible in the distance.. The bedrock geology of Snowdonia is largely formed from a sequence of sedimentary and igneous rocks originating during the early Palaeozoic (the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian periods, lasting between 539 and 419 million years ago).
Individual sheets of the 1:50,000 scale geological map series of England and Wales published by the British Geological Survey. Sheets 163, 164, 177–179, 193–196, 211 provide coverage of the county.
The British Geological Survey map numerous residual deposits across the upper surfaces of the South Downs, derived from the solution, decalcification and cryoturbation of the underlying bedrock. Referred to as the Clay-with-flints Formation, the deposit also contains sand and silt in places.