The wide sandy beach that you see as soon as you get to Ferriters Cove, gives way to a broad expanse of olive green seaweeds at mid tide level that conceals an uneven pavement of low-lying and jagged rocks to which they are attached. These rocks are the first signs of the incredible ancient fossil-bearing Silurian strata for which this cove is famous. Walking around the cove in a northerly direction reveals, one-by-one, a series of strata, each with a character of their own in terms of colour, texture, and shape, and terminating in the massive flat shining slabs of rock that face the cliffs in the distance below Ferriters Castle.
This is the first in a series of posts illustrating the changing nature of the Silurian strata in the sequence exposed at this location.
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Love the landscapes Jessica, and No 3 with the purples and greens in the seaweed.
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Thank you, Adrian. A lovely location but a little difficult to find a place to park. The rocks on this beach are fascinating in the way that each couple of steps leads you to a different geological horizon with the rocks getting younger in origin as you follow the shoreline northwards.
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Didn’t see that beach at all Jessica – another excuse to go back!
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