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St Mary's Well Bay: Geology

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St Mary's Well Bay

More vegetation where white lias slabs interleaved with shales which weather to soil. St Mary's Well Bay. Note loss of most of the brick building on cliff top. January 1983

Date: January 1983

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St Mary's Well Bay to Swanbridge. Triass cliffs and vegetation

Aquifer at junction of Triassic tea green and red marls. Water supports Enteromorpha, St Mary's Well

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St Mary's Well Bay to Swanbridge. Triass cliffs and vegetation

Alabaster nodule holes (potato stones) St Mary's Well Bay

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St Mary's Well Bay to Swanbridge. Triass cliffs and vegetation

Whita Lias slab full of fossil oysters. St Mary's Well Bay. NB in Rhaetic sea invaded Trias salt lakes so marine

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St Mary's Well Bay

Cliff West of St Mary's Well Bay, East of Swanbridge

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Swanbridge and Sully Bay to Sully Hospital

Hard calcite bandsat right angles to Trias beds, St Mary's Well Bay 1973

Date: 1973

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Swanbridge and Sully Bay to Sully Hospital

Tabular white Lias and black shales of Rhaetic. Tea green marls of Trias below. St Mary's Well Bay West of Lavernock syncline, January 1983

Date: January 1983

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC)
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