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Whin Sill

geological feature, England, United Kingdom
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  • Cheviot Hills
    Northumberland

    …a notable landscape feature is Whin Sill, a doleritic (lava) intrusion that forms the Farne Islands and Bamburgh Castle Rock and carries sections of a Roman wall. The coastal plain, underlain by limestone in the north and coal-bearing rocks in the south, is covered by glacial deposits varying in character…

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    …a notable landscape feature is Whin Sill, a doleritic (lava) intrusion that forms the Farne Islands and Bamburgh Castle Rock and carries sections of a Roman wall. The coastal plain, underlain by limestone in the north and coal-bearing rocks in the south, is covered by glacial deposits varying in character…

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