Load Casts / Caunter Beach (S6)
Load Casts / Caunter Beach (S6)

Top Pic -
An impressive slab of rock from the Bude Formation (part of a Fold) , showing Sandstone with Load Casts
Black shales in the foreground .
Part of a ridge between Caunter Beach (rocky) and Greenway Beach (some sand) . An area called Oldwalls.
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Bottom Pic -
A close view of the Casts . Vermiform Load Casts ??
These features form during soft-sediment deformation shortly after sediment burial, when overlying sediment
settles into less dense, water-saturated sediment below.
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Location Between Morwenstow and Duckpool - Gallery 6
Limited parking at the end of the lane from Stanbury.
The steep path to the beach follows a Stream , then a rocky foreshore all the way to this view.
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Ref: 5413.4

Date: 24/11/2017

Location: SS 1974 1410

Load Casts / Caunter Beach (S6)

Top Pic -
An impressive slab of rock from the Bude Formation (part of a Fold) , showing Sandstone with Load Casts
Black shales in the foreground .
Part of a ridge between Caunter Beach (rocky) and Greenway Beach (some sand) . An area called Oldwalls.
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Bottom Pic -
A close view of the Casts . Vermiform Load Casts ??
These features form during soft-sediment deformation shortly after sediment burial, when overlying sediment
settles into less dense, water-saturated sediment below.
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Location Between Morwenstow and Duckpool - Gallery 6
Limited parking at the end of the lane from Stanbury.
The steep path to the beach follows a Stream , then a rocky foreshore all the way to this view.
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Ref: 5413.4

Date: 24/11/2017

Location: SS 1974 1410