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The Peak National Park landscape is strongly influenced by the rocks that lie underneath the soil. These are sometimes exposed on the surface as well. These rocks, and the soils formed from them, partly determine which plants will grow on the land and which animals can live there. The rocks also affect the industries that have been important in the Peak District and those that are important now.
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Geology of the Peak District National Park |
Limestone, in the south and centre of the Park, forming the White Peak;
Millstone Grit, forming a horseshoe shape around the Park, which is called the Dark Peak;
Shale, a softer rock which lies at the foot of the Millstone Grit edges and forms the fertile valleys of the Park.
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Recent Pleistocene |
10,000 1m |
| TERTIARY | Pliocene Miocene Oligocene Eocene Palaeocene |
10m 25m 40m 60m 70m |
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| MESOZOIC | Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic |
135m 180m 225m |
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| PALEOZOIC | Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian |
270m 350m 400m 440m 500m 600m |
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4,500m | ||
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