The scenery of the Peak District is outstanding.  Most of the countryside here is
open to tourists and hill walkers and there are some impressive geological features
to be seen including caverns, faults, folds, disused quarries, mineral veins and more.

If you know what you are looking for there are examples of reef limestones, lava
flow basalts, elastin bitumen (oil residue), sandstone (including the Millstone Grit),
shale and breccia as well as many minerals in veins and as rock constituents.
There are some old quarry spoil tips where (if you feel it is safe enough and
have permission to be there) you may collect specimens of the waste minerals.

A slightly asymetric small-scale anticlinal fold in reef limestone at Ecton.
Grid Ref:  098 587

Mam Tor, the only place in the world where Blue John may be found in situ.
Galena, blue john and colourless cubic fluorite may be found at Mam Tor.
Grid Ref: 128 837

The entrance to Treak Cliff Cavern, Castleton, one of the
many impressive caverns to be found in the district.

Carbonate breccia at Ecton.  Grid Ref: 095 580

There are surface waste tips at the disused ecton mine.  Pyrite, chalcopyrite,
malachite, chrysocolla and rhombohedral crystals of calcite may be found at this location.

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