Chapter 15 Collaborating on the Skiddaw Group

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Abstract When the Lakeland Project started in 1982, the first Survey men to go into the field among the outcrops of the Skiddaw Slates were Peter Allen, Tony Cooper, Adrian Rushton and Stewart Molyneux, and they were soon joined by Barry Webb, with his previous Lakeland experience. Later, Philip Stone did a good deal of Skiddaw work as he had experience of somewhat analogous rocks in the Southern Uplands, and he is currently (2001) leader of the Lakeland Project. 1 Richard Hughes (see Fig. 14.3), a former student of Barrie Rickards at Cambridge, did a considerable amount of Skiddaw work after he joined the Survey group at the Newcastle office in 1989, and undertook the scientific editing of the Survey's Skiddaw Memoir, currently in press. 2 The surveyor Eric Johnson (see p. 209 and Fig. 14.3) did work on the Black Combe area, as did Andrew Bell from the Open University on independent contract to the Survey, 3 and Soper's Sheffield PhD student Neil Mathieson, co-supervised by Peter Allen, did work in the area too, but more specifically on the volcanic rocks. 4 Co-supervised by Soper and Cooper, Richard Moore from Leeds University did important work for his PhD (1992), which influenced the interpretations of the Skiddaw Group in northern Lakeland. However, broadly speaking, the input from university geologists to the Lakeland Project has been less important for 'Otley F than for 'Otley IF and TIF. Cooper joined the Survey in 1975. 5 Having worked on Ordovi-cian rocks for his PhD, he expected to be put