Linegar Wood, Gloucestershire

The Northerly face of Shakemantle quarry

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The calcium to magnesium replacement in dolomite produces a shrinkage, shown clearly here as regular cracks between large blocks of rock.

Uploaded to Geograph by Dr Duncan Pepper on 19 November 2015

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