Gravel Bay - Moor Cliffs Formation with calcretes…
Gravel Bay - Moor Cliffs Formation with calcretes…
Fenney Lane hollow way 2
Fenney Lane hollow way 1
Gravel Bay - Moor Cliffs Formation 2
Gravel Bay - millipede-like burrows in Moor Cliffs…
Fox Hole Anticline - northern limb 3
Fox Hole Anticline - northern limb jointing with c…
Fox Hole Anticline - northern limb with mine adit
Fox Hole Anticline - northern limb 2
Fox Hole Anticline - northern limb
Little Haven - Fox Hole Anticline
Little Haven north side geological interpretation
Little Haven north side panorama
Little Haven view north over Rooks Bay and The Set…
The Settlands at Little Haven from coastal path
Newgale Sands 3
Trefrane Cliff Colliery chimney 4
Trefrane Cliff Colliery chimney 3
Trefrane Cliff Colliery chimney 2
Trefrane Cliff Colliery chimney 1
Newgale Sands 1
Rickets Head Black Cliff Colliery tip and Newgale
Rickets Head south mining activity panorama
Rickets Head end-on view
Rickets Head north mining activity panorama
Nolton Haven north west cliffs of Pennant Sandston…
Nolton Haven sandstone channel edge 1
Nolton Haven sandstone channel edge 2
Nolton Haven sandstone channel edge lag deposits 1
Nolton Haven sandstone channel edge lag deposits 2
Nolton Haven ironstone pebbles in channel lag depo…
Nolton Haven ironstone pebbles in channel lag depo…
Nolton Haven sandstone channel scours
Nolton Haven channel sandstones
Nolton Haven channel sandstones 2
Nolton Haven channel sandstones 3
Nolton Haven channel lag deposit in beach boulder…
Nolton Haven channel lag deposit in beach boulder…
Nolton Haven seaward view
Monkstone Point folds 1
Monkstone Point folds 2
Overturned bedding at Trevayne Point
Trevayne Point anticline
Lodge Valley beach
Lodge Valley waterfall 4
Lodge Valley waterfall 3
Lodge Valley waterfall 2
Lodge Valley waterfall 1
Lodge Valley bedding plane descent to beach 4
Lodge Valley bedding plane descent 3
Lodge Valley bedding plane descent 2
Lodge Valley bedding plane descent 1
Handa Island - Great Stack geodh
Handa Island - Great Stack (2)
Handa Island - Great Stack
Handa Island - Geodh' a' Bhrisidh (2)
Handa Island - Geodh' a' Bhrisidh
Green wall 1
Green wall 2
Green wall 3
Cliffs of composed of Otter Sandstone, Budleigh Sa…
Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds
Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds - faulted
Budleigh convergence
Syncline at Wrangle Point, Crooklets, near Bude.
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Freshwater West, Gravel Bay and East Pickard Bay
Moor Cliffs Formation in Gravel Bay.
This photo shows the wave cut platform in the Moor Cliffs Formation at the western end of Gravel Bay. A light purple sandstone bed is seen in the centre of the photo with red mudstones below (left) and above (right). The white mottling towards the right is a particularly well-developed calcrete horizon. The sequence is dipping to the north (right) at approx. 60°.
The walking stick is about 0.9 m long.
Background:
The Moor Cliffs Formation overlies the Freshwater East conglomerates, seen in previous photos, and spans the boundary between the Silurian and Devonian periods. It consists of red mudstones and siltstones with occasional thin sandstone beds. These were deposited on a low-reflief floodplain at the edge of an arid continental margin, the sandstones being deposited by seasonal braided streams, the muds and silts deposited in ephemeral marginal lakes. When not inundated, the muds and silts developed carbonate-rich calcrete (caliche) soil horizons along dessication cracks, burrows and early plant root systems.
Moor Cliffs Formation in Gravel Bay.
This photo shows the wave cut platform in the Moor Cliffs Formation at the western end of Gravel Bay. A light purple sandstone bed is seen in the centre of the photo with red mudstones below (left) and above (right). The white mottling towards the right is a particularly well-developed calcrete horizon. The sequence is dipping to the north (right) at approx. 60°.
The walking stick is about 0.9 m long.
Background:
The Moor Cliffs Formation overlies the Freshwater East conglomerates, seen in previous photos, and spans the boundary between the Silurian and Devonian periods. It consists of red mudstones and siltstones with occasional thin sandstone beds. These were deposited on a low-reflief floodplain at the edge of an arid continental margin, the sandstones being deposited by seasonal braided streams, the muds and silts deposited in ephemeral marginal lakes. When not inundated, the muds and silts developed carbonate-rich calcrete (caliche) soil horizons along dessication cracks, burrows and early plant root systems.
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