Fault Breccia
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Fault Breccia
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 20 Aug 2011
This ridge of rock stands proud on the shore at right angles to most of the other rocks. It is a fault breccia, that is, rock ground up and fragmented along the line of a fault, and then relithified. In the far distance, beyond the Firth of Forth, is the conical shape of North Berwick Law in Image
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Image Location
Latitude
56.077434
Longitude
-3.163475