Geological Features

Place: Welcombe Mouth

Category: Geology

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About: The strange rock formations that can be found at Welcombe Mouth were formed some 320 million years ago from sheets of mud and sand on the ancient seabed being compressed and turning to stone over the ages.

Photograph Added: 10th December 2011

Pointed Rock Formation

Place: Welcombe Mouth

Category: Geology

About: Welcombe Mouth beach has any number of very interesting rock formations but these pointed rocks caught our eye. We walked over the rocks to Marsland Mouth in Cornwall but came back via the cliff path. Even though the path was very steep it was easier......

Photograph Added: 15th November 2011

Red rocks

Place: Exmouth

Category: Geology

About: At this end of the beach at Exmouth the rocks are 250 million years old and very red in colour. This is because of the desert environment that existed in this area all those years ago.

Photograph Added: 24th June 2011

Plate Tectonics

Place: Hartland Quay

Category: Geology

About: Plate tectonics caused the collision of two super continents and Hartland Quay was in the middle. Devon marked the southern margin of a super-continent called Laurasia and this collided with the super-continent of Pangaea to the South. As these tw......

Photograph Added: 3rd June 2011

Geological Folds

Place: Hartland Quay

Category: Geology

About: The cliffs at Hartland Quay must be admired by both non specialists and the professional geologist and it takes little or no geological knowledge to appreciate the hundreds of millions of years of natural history evidenced in the rocks

Photograph Added: 3rd June 2011