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• This is a ‘tor’ on Dartmoor• Dartmoor is a National Park in Devon• The underlying rock is granite• Tors are found on hilltops and are the

result of weathering of the granite

• This cup is made of porcelain• Fine porcelain is known as bone china• It was made in Stoke on Trent• Bone china is made from bone ash, china

stone and china clay

• This harbour is Fowey (pronounced ‘Foy’)• It is in the south of Cornwall• It used to export china clay• Much of Cornwall’s china clay went by sea

to Liverpool

• This is a close up of a piece of granite• Granite comprises three types of minerals:

quartz is clear and greyish like glassmica is black and shinyfeldspar is white (sometimes pink)

• The feldspar can be weathered by a process called ‘kaolinisation’

• Many of the upland areas in Cornwall are underlain by granite

• This cone is in Cornwall• It is not a volcano!• It is made of quarry waste

• This is a pottery factory in Stoke on Trent• It has been preserved as a museum• The ‘chimneys’ are bottle ovens where

porcelain was fired• Stoke on Trent was linked by canal and

railway to the port of Liverpool

• This is a disused china clay pit in Cornwall• China clay was quarried using powerful

jets of water to break up weathered (kaolinised) granite

• The china clay (kaolin) then dried out as a powder

• This is the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall

• It is located in a former china clay pit• Inside one of the ‘biomes’ there is a real

living, growing rainforest

• These are granules of china clay or kaolin• When granite is weathered, the feldspar

crystals within it break down into china clay or kaolin

• China clay is an important ingredient for porcelain manufacture