Coastal erosion - balls of boulder clay - Hornsea beach
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Coastal erosion - balls of boulder clay - Hornsea beach
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 3 Dec 2014
I snapped these hunks of boulder clay as evidence of the processes of erosion on the East Yorkshire coast. Chewed from the cliffs the boulder clay is rolled around in the waves and will often gather beach stones which cling to it. The soft boulder clay formed the Plain of Holderness during the last Ice Age.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.904547
Longitude
-0.156678