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.