The photo shows a rock support-pillar left to support the roof of the underground quarry workings at Little Langdale Quarry in the Lake District. The rock type was worked as the local slate but is probably Ordovician volcaniclastic sandstone. The sandstone being partially metamorphosed.
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Keywords:cumbria, geology, lake district, little langdale, metamorphic, ordovician, quarries, quarrying, sandstones, slate