Cape Cornwall
Cape Cornwall ( Cornish Pen Kernow) is a narrow headland in Cornwall , United Kingdom . It's about 6.7 kilometers north of Land's End near St Just .
geography
The Atlantic is divided into several waters by the Cape: The Bristol Channel and the Irish Sea begin here in the north and the English Channel in the south . The headland used to be the most westerly point in England until accurate measurements showed that Land's End is the most westerly point.
At Cape Cornwall there is a lookout point, parking lot and public toilets for tourists. The chimney at the top of the headland is a memorial that is intended to commemorate mining and the associated ore mining in the St Just mining area . In the immediate vicinity is the Letcha Mine , the chimney of which can be seen about 800 meters southeast of Cape Cornwall. Many traces of the industrialization of this landscape have been preserved to this day, the area around St. Just has been under special protection as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006. In the sea off the Cape are The Brisons , two rocks that look like Charles de Gaulle lying on his back.
geology
Cape Cornwall is underlain by Devonian metapelites (former clays and silts) of the Mylor Slate Formation , which, due to the penetration of Land's End Granite, is now present as hornfels (so-called patch slate ) that has been changed by contact metamorphosis . The granite appears in its coarse-grained facies ( CGG granite) rich in large phenocrystals further south at Priest Cove , in the northeast on the Boswedden Cliff of Porth Ledden and set back from the Cape somewhat to the east in the hinterland. The actual contact is not open-minded. The foliation of the Horn Felse covers more or less to the north-northeast. Corresponding fold axes gently dip in the same direction. The early foliation is slightly inclined to the east-southeast, whereas the late structures also show a shallow but opposite dip. The structures are being cut off by an east-southeast trending fault on the south side of Cape Cornwall .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan M. Pownall, David J. Waters, Michael P. Searle, Robin K. Shail and Laurence J. Robb: Shallow laccolithic emplacement of the Land's End and Tregonning granites, Cornwall, UK: Evidence from aureole field relations and PT modeling of cordierite-anthophyllite hornfels. In: Geosphere . Vol. 8, No. 6 , 2012, p. 1467-1504 , doi : 10.1130 / GES00802.1 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ N , 5 ° 43 ′ W