This is a simple enough earth cache. You will need to visit the GZ given and do a little research to answer the questions below.
This is a popular climbing area so please keep your own safety and that of those around you to mind.
Please message me the answers, (including your email address if you want a reply).
This information describes the structure of this outcrop of rock. As most of the local rock, this is a limestone outcrop. This geocache is sited at the bottom of the rock face. Age of the rocks exposed: Arundian Age to Holkerian Age.
Description of what you can see: Dark to medium light grey, thick to thin-bedded, bioclastic limestone with mudstone beds.
Description of Lower Boundary: At the base you can see evidence of dark grey limestones with mudstone partings of the Scaleber Force Limestone Member where it rests sharply and conformably on paler grainstone of the Chapel House Limestone Formation.
Description of Upper Boundary: At the upward passage, if you stand back from the rock face, you can see the change from mid dark-grey limestone of the Scalebar Quarry Limestone Member into the pale grey limestone of the Cove Limestone Member and Malham Formation.
Thickness of the formation: Up to 224m in the south of the Middle Craven Fault. (you can’t see this because it’s below ground).
At this location the Formation thins rapidly northwards to ??m in the Kilnsey area.
Geographical Limits: Series of rock in the southern part of the Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, including Kilnsey, Langcliffe and Austwick.
The origin of this formation, is Great Scar Limestone Group which was previous called Kilnsey Limestone
This sections extends from, Kilnsey Crag, Nr. Malham, North Yorkshire to Scaleber Force Limestone Member and Scaleber Quarry Limestone. Part of this section, Kilnsey Crag near Malham, North Yorkshire exposes 8m of the upper part of the Scaleber Force Limestone Member and 29m of the overlying Scaleber Quarry Limestone .
Questions You will need to visit the GZ given and do a little internet research to log this cache.
1) Get up close to the rock face at the GZ and describe the texture of the rock, use the wording from above.
2) This rock was laid down in what geological period? (Arundian Age — Holkerian Age are part of this period.)
3) How tall is the rock face?
If you feel willing and able please add a photo of the rock face, or something interesting close by.
You will often find climbers on the rock faces, please respect their wishes and put your own and their safety first.
If you are unable to get to the GZ for any reason I will be willing to accept answers based on any of the outcrops between the pub car park and the GZ.
DO NOT STOP ON THE ROAD TO DO THIS CACHE, IT IS NOT SAFE AND THERE IS NO ACCESS FROM THE ROADSIDE.
Thanks for visiting the cache, hope you enjoyed the visit.