Avalanche   3 comments

Culver Cliffs, Isle of Wight

Yesterday, the Isle of Wight got smaller.

 

Posted May 21, 2007 by MRY in Geology, Isles of Scilly

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  1. Amazing. Were the cliffs heavily saturated with water?

  2. Probably – it has been wet almost every day for the past month.

  3. The rock there has been lifted and folded into bit sin-clines and anti-clines……as a result the beds are generally vertically aligned……..thus they tend to sheer of when waterlogged.

    jg

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