Mr. Overburys goes to the beach, Again!

[legrandefromage]

took the overburys to Snettisham beach.

We had some fun, in the sun.

I look like I've witnessed a nuclear blast...

Enjoy:

 

[legrandefromage]

more beachness

 

[Mr Panda]

Oooh - excellent geological horizon in those cliffs. What's that then - chalk over sandstone?

 

[legrandefromage]

Oooh - excellent geological horizon in those cliffs. What's that then - chalk over sandstone?

yup


The Hunstanton Cliffs GCR site is a west-facing sea cliff, up to 18 m high, that extends 1.3 km
NNE from Hunstanton promenade to St Edmund's Point, Old Hunstanton (Figure 5.6). The site
provides a continuous, long and beautifully weathered section (Figure 5.7) through the lower
two-thirds of the redefined Ferriby Chalk Formation, the equivalent in the Northern Province of
the Grey Chalk Subgroup of the Southern Province. This is the first outcrop locality where the
stratigraphical terminology of the Northern Province can be applied. The Hunstanton Cliffs GCR
site is the next link northwards in the network of GCR sites after Chinnor Chalk Pit in the
southern Chiltern Hills and Barrington Chalk Pit (Cambridgeshire). Parts of the succession,
notably the basal Paradoxica Bed, the overlying Lower Inoceramus Bed and the Totternhoe
Stone are very fossiliferous. The macrofossils from here are critical in the correlation between
the relatively condensed successions of the Northern Province and the expanded, basinal
successions of the Southern Province. The Ferriby Chalk Formation here, and in the type area,
is directly comparable with the Cenomanian successions in northern Germany.

 

[Mr Panda]

But no, Shirley its white chalk over red chalk ....

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount220.pdf

wow

Nice bike BTW - colourscheme of which neatly mirrors the white/red chalk exposure behind it

 

[chrisv40]

Nice pics mate and even nicer bike, really like that

 

[IDB1]

Looks like Thunderbird 2's launch pad in pic 3 :shock:

Lovely bit of coast you got there lgf.. and that bike doesn't look half bad either

 

[MartinYorkshire]

Thats great LGF. Dont fancy the job of cleaning the sand out of your cracks though.

 

[xerxes]

Hold on a minute, what's going on with those gears?

Large chainring, big sprocket, what are you playing at?

 

[MartinYorkshire]

Hold on a minute, what's going on with those gears?

Large chainring, big sprocket, what are you playing at?

Holy chain stretch Batman, you're right!