Coastal

Cliffs comprised of Devensian glacial till ('boulder clay) just south of Old Quay Rocks at near Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire. The cliffs display mud-flows and gulleying, toppling failures (note fallen block next to Jan) as well as rotational slides.

Uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. These splendid cliffs are at Old Quay Rocks, Filey, looking eastwards towards Filey Brigg in the distance. The foreground rocks are the Coralline Oolite Formation (Upper Jurassic) overlain by thick glacial till - 'boulder clay' (Devensian).

This Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, Burnham Formation) stack at West Cliff, Selwicks Bay, Flamborough, East Yorkshire, is severely deformed by folding and thrusting as part of the east-west trending Howardian Hills-Flamborough Fault belt, which is magnificently exposed in the northern part of Selwicks Bay. Structures such as this are rare in the Chalk of northern England, but in the Flamborough area, these E-W belts of disturbed Chalk have been recognised since 1829 during the early years of geological surveying in the UK. A comprehensive account of the structural geology of the Flamborough area is given in: Starmer, I.C. 1995. Deformation of the Upper Cretaceous Chalk at Selwicks Bay, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire: its significance in the structural evolution of north-east England and the North Sea Basin. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, vol 50, part 3, pp 213-228. Includes superb maps, sections and 3D block diagrams - well worth a read.

Have a look at the Lizzie Dripping website here: www.lizziedripping.org.uk/

This is the Fox Hole cave and anticline at Little Haven, Pembrokeshire. The cave may have originated by natural erosion but it has been enlarged by mining activity for the thin coal seam which is present here. There is also at least one mining level (adit) driven into the anticline from the left side of the structure. One photo here and more to follow.... Apologies for the rather poor quality. It was a filthy, wet, grey day when I took this. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency and considerably enhanced in Photoshop to overcome the weather effects.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency. The cliffs here are comprised of dark grey - black Ordovician shales which display a Caledonian (end of Silurian) anticline-syncline fold pair which has subsequently been re-folded by the Variscan (end of Carboniferous) orogeny. In this photo the anticline, which was probably originally upright, can just be seen 'on its side' with its crest pointing to the south (left).

A photo-study of Burton Cliff near Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Having spent the day at Seatown a few miles to the west, and seeing the afternoon light was turning to a beautiful gold, we realised that the yellow Bridport Sands at Burton Cliff would be spectacular in in the light of the setting sun. So we rushed over to see. And so it proved.... These photos were taken in RAW mode using a polarising filter, but no post-processing enhancement other than slight adjustments to the exposure and contrast settings. Burton Cliff is comprised of the Bridport Sands at the top of the Middle Lias in the Lower Jurassic.

A photo-study of Burton Cliff near Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Having spent the day at Seatown a few miles to the west, and seeing the afternoon light was turning to a beautiful gold, we realised that the yellow Bridport Sands at Burton Cliff would be spectacular in in the light of the setting sun. So we rushed over to see. And so it proved.... These photos were taken in RAW mode using a polarising filter, but no post-processing enhancement other than slight adjustments to the exposure and contrast settings. Burton Cliff is comprised of the Bridport Sands at the top of the Middle Lias in the Lower Jurassic.

A photo-study of Burton Cliff near Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Having spent the day at Seatown a few miles to the west, and seeing the afternoon light was turning to a beautiful gold, we realised that the yellow Bridport Sands at Burton Cliff would be spectacular in in the light of the setting sun. So we rushed over to see. And so it proved.... These photos were taken in RAW mode using a polarising filter, but no post-processing enhancement other than slight adjustments to the exposure and contrast settings. Burton Cliff is comprised of the Bridport Sands at the top of the Middle Lias in the Lower Jurassic.

A photo-study of Burton Cliff near Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Having spent the day at Seatown a few miles to the west, and seeing the afternoon light was turning to a beautiful gold, we realised that the yellow Bridport Sands at Burton Cliff would be spectacular in in the light of the setting sun. So we rushed over to see. And so it proved.... These photos were taken in RAW mode using a polarising filter, but no post-processing enhancement other than slight adjustments to the exposure and contrast settings. Burton Cliff is comprised of the Bridport Sands at the top of the Middle Lias in the Lower Jurassic.

A photo-study of Burton Cliff near Burton Bradstock, Dorset. Having spent the day at Seatown a few miles to the west, and seeing the afternoon light was turning to a beautiful gold, we realised that the yellow Bridport Sands at Burton Cliff would be spectacular in in the light of the setting sun. So we rushed over to see. And so it proved.... These photos were taken in RAW mode using a polarising filter, but no post-processing enhancement other than slight adjustments to the exposure and contrast settings. Burton Cliff is comprised of the Bridport Sands at the top of the Middle Lias in the Lower Jurassic.

Seatown beach and Golden Cap, Dorset, in the late afternoon sunshine. A peaceful place near the end of a glorious early Spring day.

Not an extraterrestrial planetary surface but craters where pebbles had been thrown into a wet mudflow derived from the Eype Clay (Lower Jurassic). The largest crater is about 8 cm in diameter. On the beach below Ridge Cliff, Seatown, Dorset.

Seaweed covered boulders at the foot of Ridge Cliff near Seatown, Dorset, England.

Seaweed covered boulders at the foot of Ridge Cliff near Seatown, Dorset, England.

Seaweed covered boulders at the foot of Ridge Cliff near Seatown, Dorset, England.

Seaweed covered boulders at the foot of Ridge Cliff near Seatown, Dorset, England. Golden Cap in the background.

The curving shelving shingle beach looking towards Seatown, Dorset.