GALLERY TAGS
Old Red Sandstone
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
Old Red Sandstone
Puffins taking advantage of channel system ledge within Old Red Sandstone conglomeratic facies.
RSPB Scotland's Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve, Aberdeenshire.
Towy Estuary
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
Old Red Sandstone
Modern day intertidal estuarine systems linked to River Towy estuary.
Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire.
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
A transition between Namurian and Westphalian aged fluviodeltaic sequences.
Amroth Beach, Pembrokeshire.
High Salinity Mangroves
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
Namurian-Westphalian Boundary
A salt-water crocodile rests among high salinity brackish water tidal reach mangroves.
Temburong River, Brunei.
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Grey seals take advantage of rapidly evolving coastal spit development.
Blakeney Point, Norfolk.
Wave-cut Platform
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Wales' Jurassic Coast.
Dunraven Bay, Southerndown, Vale of Glamorgan.
Low Salinity Mangroves
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Lias ON Wales' JUrassic Coast
A proboscis monkey rests in the trees above low salinity brackish water tidal reach mangroves.
Kinabatangan River, northern Sabah, Malaysia.
Lias ON Wales' JUrassic Coast
Coastal Processes North Norfolk
Lias ON Wales' JUrassic Coast
Early Jurassic sandstone, limestone and mudrock sequences of the Lias Group, located at Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Many cliff failures are linked to translation along a slip surface within the angulata sequences, toppling the overlying bucklandi sequences.
Moeraki Boulder
Banded Sequences
Moeraki Boulder
A Moeraki Boulder on Koekohe Beach, Otago, New Zealand. The boulders we see today were caused by calcite concretions that formed 65 million years ago.
Perched Bog
Banded Sequences
Moeraki Boulder
Perched bog sitting on top of a depression within the impervious Namurian aged Millstone Grit outcrop, Llyn Llech Owain Country Park, Carmarthenshire. Millstone Grit forms a natural bluff seen for many miles across the Carmarthenshire countryside.
Banded Sequences
Banded Sequences
Banded Sequences
Miocene to Pleistocene sandstones and mudrocks exposed along the White Cliffs near Pariokariwa Point, Taranaki, New Zealand.
Spinner Dolphins
Banded Sequences
Banded Sequences
The absence of regular drainage from the Jebel Akhdar Mountains across the Batinah Plain lends itself to the Gulf of Oman’s clear, nutrient rich waters, which are home to abundant wildlife, such as spinner dolphins.
