Petts Stone Quarry, Snarker Pike, Kirkstone. Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Near the top of the Kirkstone Pass is Petts Stone Quarry, where rock extraction and architectural stone production takes place over 500m above sea level. Further production facilities for bespoke items such as work surfaces, head office and trade showroom are located at Skelwith Bridge near Ambleside. The main materials mined are green and blue-black slate. The former, a unique composition of volcanic material layered down some 450 million years ago, is found only in relatively small deposits within the Lake District. Intense compression led to metamorphosis into a dense and highly durable rock with great lateral strength. The latter took on a much more common geological formation, being an accumulation of dense and deeply compressed sedimentary material formed some years after the volcanic period, deep in the rifts of the earth's surface.
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Location: Petts Stone Quarry, Kirkstone, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, , Europe.
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Keywords: cumbria, kirkstone, petts, pike, quarry, slate, snarker, stone
