Cheviot geology :: Shared Description
Chapter 4, pages 53-61: The Cheviot - early Devonian rocks , granite and basement.
A field excursion in Northumbrian Rocks & Landscape: a Field Guide.
Colin Scruton Ed.(1995)
Yorkshire Geological Society
Granite rock formed from a massive magma intrusion at the centre of the Cheviot area of volcanism. Overlying lavas were eroded away from the central region leaving the granite core. Surrounding this is a metamorphic aureole where intense heat altered the andesite rock, in places making it more resistant to weathering or more friable.
A field excursion in Northumbrian Rocks & Landscape: a Field Guide.
Colin Scruton Ed.(1995)
Yorkshire Geological Society
Granite rock formed from a massive magma intrusion at the centre of the Cheviot area of volcanism. Overlying lavas were eroded away from the central region leaving the granite core. Surrounding this is a metamorphic aureole where intense heat altered the andesite rock, in places making it more resistant to weathering or more friable.
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