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Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1155775
SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie F,S,A,

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 426
 Date Entered 10/01/2012
 Updated on 11/01/2012
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Geological Record
 Record Type Geological HER
 Site Access Public Footpath
 Record Date 09/01/2011
 Location New Forest CP. Holgateand Kexwith Beck.
 Civil Parish New Forest
 Brit. National Grid NZ 0650 0400
 Altitude 300m
 Geology Steeply dipping chert strata of the ?Underset Limestone series within a fault zone on the eastern side of Kexwith Beck above and to the north of The Goats Bridge. The Underset Limestone forms the upper slopes and and the Main Limestone forms the summit of Holgate How at an elevation some 200m above the stream. The exposed face of the strata fall from the north to the south near Goats Bridge at NZ06500400 and in the opposite direction from south to north in a low cliff at stream level on the east bank of Kexwith Beck also at 300m elevation. Is this structure above Kexwith Beck an anticline? For details of the faulted strata at this location and to make your own interpretation of the strata here, See BGS Solid and Drift Edition, Sheet 41, Richmond. BGS Geological Maps are readily obtainable at a very reasonable price by return of post by a telephone call to 08454560420.
 Record Name New Forest CP. Holgate and Kexwith Beck. Fault Zone.?Anticline structure.
 Record Description To follow, further site visit required.
 Dimensions 500m in length
 Image 1 ID 2036         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description Holgate. Chert strata dipping from north to south.
 Image 2 ID 2039         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description Holgate. Chert strata some 250m above the Goats bridge forming small cliff at stream level, east bank.
 Image 3 ID 2040         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description Holgate. Chert strata some 250m above the Goats bridge forming small cliff just above stream level dipping from north to south.
 Image 4 ID 2037         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description Kexwith beck, 500m upstream. Sandstone and ?chert strata dipping from south to north
 Image 5 ID 2038         Click image to enlarge
 Image 5 Description Kexwith beck, 500m upstream. Sandstone and ?chert strata dipping from south to north
 Image 6 ID 2041         Click image to enlarge
 Image 6 Description Holgate. The southern leg of the anticline seen from Schoolmaster Pasture.
 Image 7 ID 2042         Click image to enlarge
 Image 7 Description Holgate. The 'anticline' seen from the Goats Track.
 Image 8 ID 2043         Click image to enlarge
 Image 8 Description Holgate. The anticline seen from the Goats Track.
 
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