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Scafells
The Scafells, or Scafell Massif, are a range of fells in the Cumbrian Mountains of England, made up of the remains of a caldera volcano. Fells in the range include Broad Crag, Ill Crag, Scafell, and Scafell Pike, England's tallest mountain. Great End, Lingmell and Slight Side are also usually included within the definition. These hills form part of the Southern Fells. Image:Annotated Scafell range.jpg, left, 400px, The Scafell range as seen looking west from Crinkle Crags. (Interactive labels.) rect 23 372 252 419 Slight Side (762m) rect 173 794 560 834 Scafell East Buttress rect 707 787 893 861 Esk Crag or Buttress (c. 750m) rect 245 303 409 358 Sca Fell (964m) rect 408 238 637 280 Mickledore (c.840m) rect 544 174 826 213 South Summit (c. 950m) rect 706 310 928 355 Scafell Pike (978m) rect 870 238 1108 286 Broad Crag (934m) rect 1043 308 1198 360 Ill Crag (935m) rect 1238 311 1446 351 Great End (910m) rect 0 0 1444 1085 Click hyperlink or button to expand desc n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Fells
Image:Annotated Scafell range.jpg, 300px, The Scafells rect 23 372 252 419 Slight Side (762 m) rect 173 794 560 834 Scafell East Buttress rect 707 787 893 861 Esk Pike or Crag (885 m) rect 245 303 409 358 Sca Fell (964 m) rect 408 238 637 280 Mickledore (c. 840 m) rect 544 174 826 213 South Summit (<978 m) rect 706 310 928 355 Scafell Pike (978 m) rect 870 238 1108 286 Broad Crag (934 m) rect 1043 308 1198 360 Ill Crag (935 m) rect 1238 311 1446 351 Great End (910 m) rect 0 0 1444 1085 Click hyperlink or button to expand desc none The Southern Fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickledore
Mickledore is a narrow ridge at an elevation of , connecting the mountains of Scafell and Scafell Pike in the English Lake District. It is also a pass between the valleys of Wasdale and Eskdale. The name means ''great door'' or ''pass''. The ridge is easily reached and traversed from Scafell Pike to the north, or from the valleys to the east and west. However, access to the summit of Scafell is barred by the rockface of Broad Stand, which looks much easier to climb than it is. Broad Stand Broad Stand is a steep buttress wall requiring sequential bouldering moves, which have been described as anything from scrambling to rock climbing. It is described as 'extremely dangerous' by Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, and the climb is "Difficult" in the British grading system. In descent, the cliff is even more dangerous. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge probably made a descent of Broad Stand on 5 August 1802; he wrote:Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1802), letter to Sara Hutchinson. :. . ."I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scafell
Scafell ( or ; also spelled Sca Fell, previously Scawfell) is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has a height of , making it the second-highest mountain in England after its neighbour, Scafell Pike, from which it is separated by Mickledore col. Topography Scafell stands between Wasdale in the west and upper Eskdale to the east. The highest part of the fell is a ridge running south from Mickledore as far as Slight Side, which is counted as a separate fell by most guidebooks.Richards, Mark: ''Mid-Western Fells'': Collins (2004): Despite regarding Slight Side as a separate entity, Wainwright included the wide upland area beyond it to the south west as a part of Scafell. More modern guides have partitioned the plateau off as a further independent top, Great How. The opposing flanks of Scafell are entirely different in character. To the south, monotonous smooth slopes, stony and lacking vegetation at higher levels, run down toward Burnmoor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike () is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has an elevation of above sea level, making it the highest and the most prominent mountain in England. The mountain is part of the Scafell massif, an extinct volcano, and is one of the Southern Fells. Etymology and name history The name ''Scafell'' is believed by some to derive from the Old Norse ''skalli fjall'', meaning either the fell with the shieling or the fell with the bald summit, and is first recorded in 1578 in the corrupted form ''Skallfield''. Alternatively, ''Scafell'' means "the mountain of the ''scaw'' (or promontory)". This usage can be compared etymologically with, for example, Skaw, Unst. The name originally referred to Scafell, which neighbours Scafell Pike.Dorothy Wordsworth's ascent of Scafell Pike, 1818, http://www.pastpresented.ukart.com/eskdale/wordsworth1.htm What are now known as Scafell Pike, Ill Crag, and Broad Crag were collectively called either ''the Pik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sca Fell
Scafell ( or ; also spelled Sca Fell, previously Scawfell) is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has a height of , making it the second-highest mountain in England after its neighbour, Scafell Pike, from which it is separated by Mickledore col. Topography Scafell stands between Wasdale in the west and upper Eskdale, Cumbria, Eskdale to the east. The highest part of the fell is a ridge running south from Mickledore as far as Slight Side, which is counted as a separate fell by most guidebooks.Richards, Mark: ''Mid-Western Fells'': Collins (2004): Despite regarding Slight Side as a separate entity, Alfred WainwWainwright included the wide upland area beyond it to the south west as a part of Scafell. More modern guides have partitioned the plateau off as a further independent top, Great How. The opposing flanks of Scafell are entirely different in character. To the south, monotonous smooth slopes, stony and lacking vegetation at higher levels, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great End
Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Sca Fell, Scafell chain, in the English Lake District. From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain. From the north, however, it appears as an immense mountain, with an imposing north face rising above Sprinkling Tarn (lake). This is a popular location for wild camping, and the north face attracts many climbing, climbers. Alfred Wainwright wrote of Great End in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: "This is the true Lakeland of the fellwalker, the sort of terrain that calls him back time after time, the sort of memory that haunts his long winter exile. It is not the pretty places – the flowery lanes of Grasmere (village), Grasmere or Derwentwater's wooded bays – that keep him restless in his bed; it is the magnificent ones. Places like Great End..." Topography The imposing north-eastern cliffs, riven by gullies, rise some from the Esk Hause path. Their orientation ensures that the sun rarely reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldera
A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the structural integrity of such a chamber, greatly diminishing its capacity to support its own roof and any substrate or rock resting above. The ground surface then collapses into the emptied or partially emptied magma chamber, leaving a large depression at the surface (from one to dozens of kilometers in diameter). Although sometimes described as a Volcanic crater, crater, the feature is actually a type of sinkhole, as it is formed through subsidence and collapse rather than an explosion or impact. Compared to the thousands of volcanic eruptions that occur over the course of a century, the formation of a caldera is a rare event, occurring only a few times within a given window of 100 years. Only eight caldera-forming collapses are known to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lingmell
Lingmell is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above the village of Wasdale Head. It is an outlier on the north-west flank of Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain. Topography Although standing in the shadow of its taller parent, Lingmell is very much a separate entity. In the manner of many fells it displays two contrasting aspects. The southern and western slopes – although steep – are smooth and rounded, while the northern and eastern faces fall as crags directly from the summit. The northern crag drops for toward the valley floor, with a further of scree below. The connection to Scafell Pike is via Lingmell Col, a grassy depression at . Flowing west from the col is Lingmell Gill, descending through Hollow Stones to Brackenclose at the head of Wast Water. To the east of Lingmell Col runs Piers Gill, a stream descending from high on the Scafells. This flows right around the northern perimeter of Lingmell, finally entering Wast Water as Lingmell Beck, onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slight Side
Slight Side is a fell in the English Lake District it stands east southeast of the town of Whitehaven and reaches a height of . Slight Side lies at the south western edge of the Scafells, Scafell Massif, a crescent of high ground which includes the highest ground in England. The fells names derives from the Old Norse language and means ''"The mountain shieling with the level pastures"'', it is a combination of the Norse words "sletta" and "saetr". With a shieling meaning a shepherds hut or a mountain pasture used in the summer. Topography When viewed from the valley of Eskdale, Cumbria, Eskdale the fell is seen as a distinct peak but in reality it is just the terminal point on Scafell’s southern ridge before it descends steeply to Eskdale. It only has of topographic prominence between itself and Scafell (the col is at ) and therefore Slight Side narrowly fails to qualify as a List of Nuttalls in England, Nuttall hill or a List of Hewitts in England, Hewitt. It was left to Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea, by the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, respectively. The Aegean Islands are located within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes. The sea reaches a maximum depth of 2,639 m (8,658 ft) to the west of Karpathos. The Thracian Sea and the Sea of Crete are main subdivisions of the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Islands can be divided into several island groups, including the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, the Sporades, the Saronic Islands, Saronic islands and the North Aegean islands, North Aegean Islands, as well as Crete and its surrounding islands. The Dodecanese, located to the southeast, includes the islands of Rhodes, Kos, and Patmos; the islands of Delos and Naxos are wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dacite
Dacite () is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides. It has a fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic texture and is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite. It is composed predominantly of plagioclase feldspar and quartz. Dacite is relatively common, occurring in many tectonic settings. It is associated with andesite and rhyolite as part of the subalkaline tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magma series. Etymology The word ''dacite'' comes from Dacia, a province of the Roman Empire which lay between the Danube River and Carpathian Mountains (now modern Romania and Moldova) where the rock was first described. The term ''dacite'' was used for the first time in the scientific literature in the book ''Geologie Siebenbürgens'' (''The Geology of Transylvania'') by Austrian geologists Franz Ritter von Hauer and Guido Stache. Dacite was originally defined as a new rock type to separate calc-alkaline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
