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River Ogmore cuts through sand dunes
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River Ogmore mouth
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Triassic mudstone conglomerate rocks formed on coasts. Looks like badly mixed concrete.
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Triassic mudstone conglomerate rocks formed on coasts. Looks like badly mixed concrete.
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Carboniferous limestone containing many coral fossils, formed when this area was in the southern hemisphere, near to eastern Australia today.
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Siphonophyllia. A fossil coral in the carboniferous limestone.
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Siphonophyllia. A fossil coral in the carboniferous limestone.
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Michelinia fossil ?
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Carboniferous limestone containing many coral fossils.
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Carboniferous limestone containing many coral fossils, forming a Karst-like topography.
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Cliff top glacial gully with Sutton Stone (a prized building stone formed on a shore in the early Jurassic - Littoral Lias) ahead, a Jurassic deposit of limestone conglomerate laid on Carboniferous sediments. An unconformity as the Permian and Triassic la
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Jurassic 'Lias' cliffs
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Jurassic 'Blue Lias' cliffs
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Jurassic cliffs and shore - limestone and mudstone sediments laid down in warm shallow seas almost 200 million years ago. Layers formed by Milankovitch climate cycles.
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Blue Lias cliffs of Dunraven Bay from Dunraven 'Castle'
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Pitcott Pool
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The skyline ahead and all of this area is sand dunes, some of the highest in Europe, formed 10,000 years ago, now heavily vegetated.
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River Ogmore with 10,000 year old sand dunes up to the skyline.