Bay of Stoer and Stac Fada

Looking north over the beach and the Bay of Stoer in north-west Scotland. It was a bright, clear morning and the lighting brought out the contrasting colours in the rocks, beach, sea and sky.

The rocks of the Bay of Stoer Formation, mostly fluviatile sandstones and siltstones (Mesoproterozoic, c. 1200 Ma) crop out along the shore line and cliffs.

Stac Fada (the small rock stack and low rocky peninsula just left of centre) is the type locality for the Stac Fada Formation, recently interpreted as a meteorite impact debris horizon, comparable with suevite from the much younger (Miocene, 15 Ma) Ries meteorite impact event in south Germany.