Roche Rock by lick.a.witch
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I'd completely forgotten I had taken this! It really does pay to occasionally check out the external drives.
This is known locally as Roche Rock. What follows is some blurb from Wiki.
Folk lore of the Rock
Perched dramatically on top of Roche Rock, is a ruined chapel (dedicated to St Michael). Roche Rock has many folkloric tales associated with it, the two most famous being the legend of Jan Tregeagle, a seventeenth century magistrate, who after death found refuge in the chapel and the other being part of the Tristan and Iseult tale.
Geology of Roche Rock
Roche Rock stands out as a rocky outcrop some 20 metres high on the northern flank of the St Austell granite with an approximate outcrop of some 600m x 300m. The rock is of interest to geologists as it is a fine example of quartz shorl: a fully tourmalinised granite, with black tourmaline crystals. The Rock itself lies 500 metres north of the northern margin of the St Austell granite, the smallest of the five main apophyses of the Hercynian batholith of Southwest England. The outcrop is considered to have been close to the roof of the a intrusion as indicated by the presence of numerous pegmatites occurring as sheets and containing abundant miarolitic cavities carrying quartz, tourmaline, zinnwaldite, topaz and a wide range of other phases.
I knew nothing of the above, but I do find it rather intriguing.
Thank you for taking the time to look. ^=^
Comments (7)
durleybeachbum
I did A level Goegraphy when all photos were black and white! Oh for pics like yours then!
A.C.Wolfe
Gorgeous shot! Inspires me to do something like it in Vue!
jayfar
This is a fantastic image,very well captured.
alanwilliams
so crisp and sharp, a landscape and geography info full of interest
Chipka
Geology is such an interesting subject--especially when you consider things like intrusions and catastrophic upheavals (usually caused by a bit of gas the earth feels it necessary to pass) and stuff like that, so naturally just looking at this image is intriguing for me. Those upthrusts of rock look...well...definitely like intrusions and fairly young-ish ones. The only other impressive ones I've seen were the remnants of volcanoes, and they were more smooth from weathering; they'd been standing there a long time in human terms. As for the photograph itself. WOW! This ranks right up there with the kind of stuff I'd classify as "alien," just waiting for the addition of two photoshopped moons in the sky! The architecture of that chapel is really what does it. It fits so perfectly with the rock and is so obviously old. How amazing. I wish that I could see stuff like this in the USA...aside from Anasazi ruins and such, but then, that's always an excuse to travel...so that's a good thing! I'm curious about the people who made this chapel and what they thought and how they lived. Who worshiped there? What were their names and their stories? Were they actual believers, or just doing the right thing, politically, while keeping Church Authority from peeping too intimately over their shoulders? Ah...this kind of image really gets my mind to working and well...that's one of the things I love about this image...that and it's just so darn good! I love the mood of it, and the way everything just seems a tiny bit otherworldly, but entirely familiar in a way. I love this image.
MrsLubner
As a child, my father took me to many wonderful places where ancient history was locked in stones like this. The mound builders did some wonderful things but time and weather have really taken much of it. I love the information that goes with this.
jmb007
superbe photo!