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- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group abstract "The Borrowdale Volcanic Group is a group of igneous rock formations named after the Borrowdale area of the Lake District, in England. They are Caradocian (late Ordovician) in age (roughly 450 million years old). It is thought that they represent the remains of a volcanic island arc, approximately similar to the island arcs of the west Pacific today. This developed as oceanic crust to the (present) north-west and was forced by crustal movement under a continental land-mass to the present south-east. Such forcing under, as two plates meet, is termed subduction. This land-mass has been named Avalonia by geologists. It is now incorporated into England and Wales and a sliver of North America.At that time the rocks that now comprise most of Scotland (and part of the northern Irish landmass) were not attached to Avalonia. They were separated by an ocean, called the Iapetus Ocean by geologists. The line of joining, or suture, is approximately under the Solway Firth and Cheviot Hills. In the Lake District, the junction between the early Ordovician series, Skiddaw Slate, and the Borrowdale Volcanic that was forced under it, can be seen on the slopes of Fleetwith Pike.In the English Lake District, the Borrowdale Volcanic Group is composed of lavas (mainly andesites), tuffs and agglomerates, along with some major igneous intrusions. These rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group give rise to dramatic scenery. The mountainous nature of the area, its high rainfall and the relative impermeability of the rock give rise to a high risk of storm flooding as demonstrated by the 2009 flooding of Cockermouth.The upper boundary of the group is an unconformity with the overlying Windermere Supergroup. The lower boundary is an unconformity with the underlying Skiddaw Group.The outcrop of this sequence on Crinkle Crags (and other surrounding peaks in the Lake District), was chosen as one of the top 100 geosites in the United Kingdom by the Geological Society of London.".
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- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageRevisionID "667971298".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Agglomerate.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Airys_Bridge_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Andesite.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Avalonia.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Birker_Fell_Andesite_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Borrowdale.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geological_groups.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Cumbria.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ordovician_volcanism.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanic_groups.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanism_of_England.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Cheviot_Hills.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Cockermouth.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Crinkle_Crags.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Cross_Fell.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Cumbria.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Esk_Pike_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Fleetwith_Pike.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Geological_Society_of_London.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Group_(stratigraphy).
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Iapetus_Ocean.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Igneous_rock.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Intrusive_rock.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Ireland.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Island_arc.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Lake_District.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Lava.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Lincomb_Tarns_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Lingwell_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Oceanic_crust.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Ordovician.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Ocean.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Plate_tectonics.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Sandstone.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Seathwaite_Fell_Sandstone_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Siltstone.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Skiddaw_Group.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Skiddaw_Slate.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Solway_Firth.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Subduction.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Tarn_Hows_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Tuff.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Volcanic_rock.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Wales.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Whorneyside_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLink Windermere_Supergroup.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageWikiLinkText "Borrowdale Volcanic Group".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group age "Caradocian".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group country England.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group extent "Central Lake District & Cross Fell".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group name "Borrowdale Volcanic Group".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group namedfor Borrowdale.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group otherlithology Sandstone.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group otherlithology Siltstone.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group overlies Skiddaw_Group.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group prilithology "volcanic rocks".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group region Cumbria.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Airys_Bridge_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Birker_Fell_Andesite_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Esk_Pike_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Lincomb_Tarns_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Lingwell_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Seathwaite_Fell_Sandstone_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Tarn_Hows_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subunits Whorneyside_Tuff_Formation.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group thickness "360000.0".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group type Group_(stratigraphy).
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group underlies Windermere_Supergroup.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_rockunit.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subject Category:Geological_groups.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subject Category:Geology_of_Cumbria.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subject Category:Ordovician_volcanism.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subject Category:Volcanic_groups.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group subject Category:Volcanism_of_England.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group hypernym Group.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group type Band.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group type Field.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group type Redirect.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group type Unit.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group comment "The Borrowdale Volcanic Group is a group of igneous rock formations named after the Borrowdale area of the Lake District, in England. They are Caradocian (late Ordovician) in age (roughly 450 million years old). It is thought that they represent the remains of a volcanic island arc, approximately similar to the island arcs of the west Pacific today.".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group label "Borrowdale Volcanic Group".
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group sameAs Q4946620.
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- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group sameAs Q4946620.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group wasDerivedFrom Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group?oldid=667971298.
- Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group isPrimaryTopicOf Borrowdale_Volcanic_Group.