North Cornwall - Geology
Zig Zag Folds - Millook Haven (S7)
The famous Zig Zag folds in the cliffs at Millhook Haven.
Sandstone and shale beds of the Crackington Formation have been spectacularly deformed
into a vertical cascade of zigzag folds (anticlines and synclines), lying on their sides ,
as a result of the Variscan Orogeny (mountain-building) at the end of the Carboniferous Period.
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Location - Millook Haven is to the South of Widemouth Bay in Gallery 7
Ref: 1693
Date: 08/06/2015
Location: SS 1852.0020