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Slate Ripples on Skiddaw High Man

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THE slate ripples on Skiddaw are not, so far as I am aware, mentioned by writers on the Lake District, geological or otherwise. Their peculiar character puzzled me so much, after noticing them on Saturday, July 23, that I visited the spot again on the 30th to see whether the origin which suggested itself to me was probable.

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CLARK, J. Slate Ripples on Skiddaw High Man. Nature 36, 388 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036388c0

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