Water-worn Limestone (WHC2) 43

Weathered limestone rock layers on the Worms Head Causeway in Gower, South Wales.

Water-worn Limestone (WHC2) 43 – Weathering of Carboniferous Black Rock Limestone Sub Group layers on the Worms Head Causeway in Gower, South Wales, showing the wearing, smoothing, and shaping effects of a combination of erosion by mechanical abrasion (waves carrying stones), acid dissolution (rain water) and bio-erosion (damage caused by micro-organisms and marine invertebrates).

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