Rocks FDP 1: Predominantly red sedimentary rock strata on the beach, with alternating layers in shades of grey, water-worn and weathered, some with with attached littoral lichens in contrasting black and white.
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Rocks FDP 1: Predominantly red sedimentary rock strata on the beach, with alternating layers in shades of grey, water-worn and weathered, some with with attached littoral lichens in contrasting black and white.
Where are these pink rocks?
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Hi Emma, these Devonian sandstone rocks are on the beach at Fermoyle, which is on the Dingle Peninsula, west coast of Ireland. Photos taken many years ago.
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I love the vertical lines.
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Just imagine the enormous pressures in the earth’s crust that over time pushed these rock layers to such an extent that they changed from their original horizontal alignment to the present vertical position.
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Yes. I like looking a highway cuts to see this phenomenon (we don’t have cliffs such as you depict anywhere near). I also was thinking of the forces necessary to move these boulders and to scatter them, that we recently saw near us: https://claudiamcgilladvice.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/through-a-silent-stony-landscape/
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Road side cuttings and boulders in lay-bys are a good place to see the beauty of rocks.
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I remember when I was very young, when the highways were built in our area (a former ancient ocean which resulted in layers of limestone now covered with a veneer of soil) how the limestone was exposed, the layers, and the revelation to me that just below a few feet of dirt, so much rock existed, andso beautiful.
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