East Cliff at West Bay near Bridport (6) – The honeycomb pattern of the ledges on the cliff face is called ‘tafoni’. The tunnels of animals – like that of the decapod crustacean Thallassinoides, which constructed large horizontal burrows in the ancient sea bed – were infilled with harder, more calcium-rich sediments than the surrounding rock and thus are more resistant to erosion and stand out like networks of interconnected cords. P1250971aBlog6
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