With help from Manchester Leisure The Friends of Swinton Grove Park have been able to completely transform the park in the last few years, putting in a new children's play area, sports area, quiet area with plants and flowers, benches, tables, new signs, gates and railings. Every year they organise and run a Family Fun Day in the park. In 2004 the park won a Community Award, and every year since 2006 it has won the green flag award. The stone in question has been commemorated to a founder of the friends of swinton grove park. The stone is a lovely piece of sandstone. Sandstone (sometimes known as arenite) is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white and black. Since sandstone beds often form highly visible cliffs and other topographic features, certain colours of sandstone have been strongly identified with certain regions. Stones Such as sand stones sometimes have Bedding-planes. In geology a bed is the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. A bed is the smallest lithostratigraphic unit, usually ranging in thickness from a centimetre to several metres and distinguishable from beds above and below it. Beds can be differentiated in various ways, including rock or mineral type and particle size. The term is generally applied to sedimentary strata, but may also be used for volcanic flows or ash layers. In a quarry, a bedding is a term used for a structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface. To log this earthcahe I need the following questions answering.
1. How many stepping stones lead to the stone and could they have the same origin as the Main Stone (do they look like they are made of same material)
2. What are the rough dimentions of the stone
3. Describe the Texture, The Shape of the stone (you can do this by feeling the stone but how big are the particles within the stone and is there any visible sructures to the stone i.e. is there any bedding planes).