Bomb Rocks
Ancient volcano emission
Ancient volcano emission
Short problems on unique rock.
David Boyce has posted about bouldering on the Bomb Rocks on his Only the Determined blog.
Parking: Park in the tight layby on Abbey Road (52.733509, -1.325023).
Approach: Walk eastwards along Abbey Road, taking care with the speeding traffic. Walk down the track on your right behind the house to reach the rocks.
Approach: Walk eastwards along Abbey Road, taking care with the speeding traffic. Walk down the track on your right behind the house to reach the rocks.
David Boyce on North Bomb f4
The ‘Bomb Rocks’ locality is a remarkable exposure of very coarsely fragmental volcanic rocks. It was given this name by Watts (1947), because he thought that the large fragments seen in this rock had fallen through the air as volcanic bombs.
- J. N. Carney (2010)
The “Bomb Rocks” are now thought to be due to abrasive rounding in a volcanic vent, not to explosive eruption.
- H. Boynton and T. Ford (2010)
