TumbleStone Blog started in March 2016. Since then, a wide range to topics have featured in Posts, and from time to time I will revisit some of them.
The first revisitation takes us to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in May 2017. I was there for three days, one of my main purposes being to visit the Standing Stones of Callanish. “Gneiss in the Landscape – Part One: The Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis” tells the story of my visit to Lewis, with lots of photos of the standing stones (including drone shots from YouTube), along with information on the meaning of the stones and the nature of the rock the stones come from, local Lewisian gneiss, the oldest rock in the British Isles. [A Part Two of “Gneiss in the Landscape” never eventuated.]
The second revisitation takes us south during my same visit to the UK in 2017, to England’s Yorkshire Dales. I had seen references in travel literature about Malham Cove and its limestone rocks but was skeptical about whether it would turn out to be very impressive. Coming upon it during an interesting day’s walk, I was blown away. “Limestone Landscapes in the UK – Part One: Malham Cove” gives an account of the “cove”, really a deeply eroded limestone pavement formed by a waterfall carrying meltwater from glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age, more than 12,000 years ago. The Post also notes a link between Malham Cove and Harry Potter. [Again, a Part Two of “Limestone Landscapes in the UK” never eventuated.]
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