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Friday, 7 October 2011

Magnetic whinstone of Marton west beck ( Stainton gravel beds )

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This Andesite (whinstone) boulder in Marton west beck south Middlesbrough is magnetic. Every whinstone boulder i checked attracted ...
Monday, 3 October 2011

Magnetic whinstone boulder from Stainton gravel beds.

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These images show my daughter pointing out the small magnet stuck to this worn whinstone boulder. The boulder is buried into the bank...
Sunday, 25 September 2011

Magnetic Whinstone of Stainton beck Middlesbrough.

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This shows that even the boulder sized Whinstone from these released ancient river gravels are  magnetic, i can not find any reference ...
Saturday, 17 September 2011

Packed gravels and red clay at Ormesby beck.

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These images show yet again the red clay underlying the packed gravel layer, as at all the other beck locations excavated in the south w...
Monday, 12 September 2011

Angle of blue clay deposits at Stainton

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Here you can see the already excavated area to the left and the un excavated section to the right discoloured by the brown / red fryable d...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Maltby beck excavation

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This excavation shows the same sequence of deposits that have been exposed at Stainton beck, at roughly the same depth in relation to the s...
Monday, 29 August 2011

Bone excavated from Stainton gravel beds.

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The first two images show the top of the gravel layer, the cup of tea was a suprise ! In this dig section there is a layer of packed san...