Pencannow Point cliff at Crackington Haven

The 80 metre high cliff of Pencannow Point towers over the northern side of Crackington Haven, north Cornwall. A figure in the lower right corner helps give a sense of scale (see note).

Grey shales and thin turbidite sandstones, (pale grey-brown) of the Crackington Formation (upper Carboniferous) have been strongly deformed into isoclinal recumbent folds by the Variscan earth movements at the end of the Carboniferous.

A zoomed-in view of the lower part with a geological interpretation is here: