Conglomerate and a Dyke
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Conglomerate and a Dyke
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 20 Oct 2019
This is really easy access geology, with outcrops of Old Red Sandstone conglomerate all along the shore beside Marine Parade. The pale linear slice of rock is an igneous dyke intruded into the Devonian sandstone in Carboniferous times.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.750401
Longitude
-4.914995