Little Barton Strand

Little Barton Strand is a rocky inlet just north of Pencannow Cliff and Crackington Haven, notth Cornwall.

The stripy rocks are interbedded grey shales and turbidite sandstones of the Crackinton Formation (upper Carboniferous), which are mostly inverted - turned upside down - by the Variscan earth movements at the end of the Carboniferous.

This locality is also where the truncated Cleave valley terminates abruptly. Its waterfall can be seen on the far right plunging over a near vertical lip on to the rocky beach.