Urban Geology

Geology in the city of Hull

Here are some of the interesting rock types that can be seen in the city of Hull, East Yorkshire, UK.

Serpenenite a green metamorphic rock, here seen in Lowgate.

Ashburton "marble" - a limestone from Devon with stromatoporoid fossils, used to face a building in Lowgate.

Portland Stone - used for the memorial for the people killed in the R38 Airship disaster of 1921 in Western Cemetery.

Tilberthwaite Tuff - a green slate from the metamorphosis of volcanic ash, from the Lake District.

Grey slates have been used for this sculpture near Minerva Pier.

The Town Docks Museum is built of Ancaster Stone - an oolitic limestone from Lincolnshire.

Black fossiliferous limestone from Belgium used for the urinals in the Gents' toilet below "King Billy's" statue in the Market Place.

A Dinosaur Trackway near Beverley Road

The Cupola from the old Guildhall now in Pearson Park, made of limestone.

Gravestones in Spring Bank Cemetery

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