Stiperstones
Sign in to savethumb|Shattered Cambrian quartzite at the Devil's Chair, Stiperstones
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- mountain
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- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Shropshire
- Elevation
- 536
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- Stiperstones.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 357
- parent peak
- Pumlumon Fawr
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thumb|Shattered Cambrian quartzite at the Devil's Chair, Stiperstones
The Stiperstones () is a distinctive hill in Shropshire, England. The quartzite rock of the ridge formed some 480 million years ago. During the last Ice Age Stiperstones lay on the eastern margin of the Welsh ice sheet. The hill itself was not glaciated though glaciers occupied surrounding valleys and it was subject to intense freezing and thawing which shattered the quartzite into a mass of jumbled scree surrounding several residual rocky tors. At above sea level it is the second-highest hill in the county, surpassed only by Brown Clee Hill (). Stiperstones' summit ridge is crowned by several jagged outcrops of rock, which may be seen silhouetted against the sky.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stiperstones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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