Anticline

Richard Bell’s nature diary, the Peak District,  Thursday,  10th September 2009

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THIS ANTICLINE (up-fold) of beds of gritstone, overlying softer shale, is exposed in a small cliff, undercut by the small River Porter, also known as the Little Don, shortly before it flows into Langsett Reservoir. The cliff is only about 30 feet high but drawing those tumbling courses of blocks gave me a slight feeling of vertigo, reminding me of the cataclysmic Biblical events depicted in the canvases of the Victorian painter ‘Mad’ John Martin.

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