Cliff below trading estate
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Cliff below trading estate
Image: © Alan Bowring Taken: 27 Sep 2008
The flat-lying sandstones and mudstones of the Mercia Mudstone Group from the Triassic period unconformably overlie tilted Carboniferous Limestone beds. This angled junction between the older rocks below and the younger rocks above represents a gap in the geological record of up to 100 million years.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.395948
Longitude
-3.245576