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

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 552
 Date Entered 25/06/2012
 Updated on 25/06/2012
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Geological Record
 Record Type Geological HER
 Site Access Public Footpath
 Record Date 24/06/2012
 Location 
 Civil Parish Not known
 Brit. National Grid NZ 133 152
 Altitude 95m
 Geology Black shales in the Millstone Grit Series of Namurian Age exposed in the North Bank of the Tees below Ovington. A thin layer of ironstone nodules caps the layer, then a bed of gravel topped by river born silt and turf. A colony of sand martins have made their nest burrows in the silt of the river bank.
 Record Name Ovington. River Tees, North Bank. Black shales and overlying gravels and silt.
 Record Description This bed of black shale or mudstone is unfossiliferous.
 Additional Notes These shales are usually unfossiliferous however the crowded remains of brachiopods, trilobites, bryophytes (Fenestrella sp.) and other fossils are occasionally found in thin calcareous marine bed bands and at at the base of thick beds of these shales. Where marine shale bands outcrop in Upper Swaledale, sepages of calcium rich groundwater form tufa deposits with rich flora of high botanical interest. Reference: British Geological Survey: The Geology of the countrey around Barnard Castle.
 Image 1 ID 3109         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description River Tees below the Islands at Ovinton. Just a reminder that the banks of the River Tees between Barnard Castle and Darlington are accessible and of great beauty and interest to walkers and anglers alike.
 Image 2 ID 3108         Click image to enlarge
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