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| Pachycephalosaurus at the Dino Trail |
On
my last field trip with the Heart of England summer school – to Drayton Manor Park – I didn’t expect to see much of interest to the geologist; however, walking around the site and taking advantage of the cable car, I was able to
appreciate a landscape where the River Trent and its tributaries cut
through the Triassic Mercia Mudstone.
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| A view from the cable car |
Pebbles,
which are typically found in the Bunter Sandstone, litter the old river terrace
and, walking up the hill to explore the area around the main entrance, rough
boulders brought in from a local quarry possess some very interesting
characteristics.
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| Permo-Triassic rocks |
As
an undergraduate geology student, during a very brief introduction to the
Permo-Triassic stratigraphy of England, the name kupferschiefer must have stuck
in my mind; I knew that the distinctive blue/green colour could only be produced by the weathering of copper bearing minerals
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| Geology at Drayton Manor Park |
