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Geological Trail across ShropshireThe geology of Shropshire is remarkably diverse, the result of processes fundamentally caused by plate tectonic activity over a long period of time. Several periods of plates moving together, moving apart, and sliding side-by-side can be detected, from the late Precambrian onwards. Shropshire has thus often been at a boundary, at the edge, and this explains the diversity of rocks and thus landscapes.
You can discover some if this evidence
by visiting the localities linked to this page (each marked with *),
and can set them in context by reference to the geological map as
you traverse from North to South across Shropshire. Yes, it is
colourful, but remember that each colour represents a period of time
that had its own distinctive character, as portrayed in the
stratigraphic column
(© London Geodiversity Partnership
2011). The sites are numbered in approximate order of increasing age as far as the Long Mynd, and then in decreasing age thereafter.
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