Crackington Haven recumbent folds
Crackington Haven recumbent folds interpretation
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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:
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:
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