SCOTLAND’S EAST COAST

Segment 41

Locality 161 - Lybster Harbour

ND 2457 3479   ///scarecrow.respond.clip

Middle Devonian Lybster Flagstone Fm. Bay and cliffs of dipping and jointed interbedded lacustrine clastics with occasional limestones and evaporites.

Locality 162 - The Brodach

ND 2519 3504   ///quantity.conspire.caressed

Middle Devonian Lybster Flagstone Fm. More steeply dipping and jointed lacustrine clastics and carbonates. Lots of bedding planes to study!

Locality 163 - Whaligoe Steps

ND 3210 4029  ///lavished.whizzing.enlarged

Middle Devonian Berriedale Sandstone Fm. The focus isn’t the sandstones on these steep steps, it’s the dark, organic rich lacustrine mudstones. Source rocks?

Locality 164 - Whaligoe Bay

ND 3227 4036   ///much.palettes.tutored

Middle Devonian Berriedale Sandstone Fm. Magical multicoloured cliffs with interbedded lacustrine sandstones, mudstones and limestones. Big faults too!!