SCOTLAND’S EAST COAST
Segment 2
Locality 5 - Siccar Point
NT 8119 7094. ///fruity.blast.lordship
Basal Late Devonian breccias, conglomerates and sandstones unconformably overlying near vertical Silurian Gala Gp. greywackes. Thank you James Hutton.
Locality 6 - Pease Bay
NT 7901 7126. ///cowboy.struggle.gems
Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous Stratheden Fm. sandstones, siltstones and calcretes. ‘Old Red Sandstone’ fluvial channel, bar and overbank deposits.
Locality 7 - Cove Harbour
NT 7842 7175. ///flitting.biggest.rates
Earliest Carboniferous Ballagan Fm. sandstones, mudstones and limestones. Marine bands, the Cove Fault, a tunnel through the Cove Harbour Sandstone.
Locality 8 - Bilsdean
NT 7666 7276 ///damage.eventful.veto
More Carboniferous Ballagan Fm. sandstones, mudstones and dolomitic limestones. A fantastic wave cut platform, arches and calcareous weathering.