rock textures – Jessica's Nature Blog

Rock texture and pattern at Moulin Huet Bay

September 8, 2026

A post from the past – 8 September 2020

Crystal veins of satin spar gypsum in fault zone rocks

August 30, 2026

A post from the past – 30 August 2016

Surface erosion patterns on Carboniferous Limestone at Little Tor, Gower, South Wales.

A post from the past – 24 July 2016

Detail of eroding cliff face showing alternating bands of Jurassic limestone and mudstone at Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

October 13, 2025

Strata 4 DRB

Jurassic limestone and shale rock layers in the vertical crumbling face of a cliff at Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

September 29, 2025

Strata 3 DRB

Detail of eroding cliff face showing alternating bands of Jurassic limestone and mudstone at Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

September 27, 2025

Strata 2 DRB

Stratification of Jurassic rocks in a cliff at Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast

September 25, 2025

Strata 1 DRB

Natural pattern, colour and texture within a rock armour boulder at Seatown in Dorset showing a kind of multicoloured conglomerate of various rock types that are embedded within the main uniform sedimentary strata.

September 15, 2025September 5, 2025

Rock Armour 8

Nodule of white calcite, red sediment, and shattered rock fragments within a boulder of dark grey sedimentary rock in rock armour or rip-rap at Seatown in Dorset

September 13, 2025September 5, 2025

Rock Armour 7