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Fleswick Bay Sandstone, St Bees
Sandstone fingers in Fleswick Bay, St Bees near Whitehaven on the West Cumbria Coast.
Wonderful rippling in the water-sculpted platforms of St. Bees Sandstone, formed in the Triassic Period about 200 million years ago.
"The stone is grained,
Smooth as walnut turned on a lathe,
Or hollowed in clefts and collars where the pebbles
Shake up and down like marbles in a bottle.
Here the chiselling edges of the waves
Scoop long fluted grooves, and here the spray
Pits and pocks the blocks like rain on snow
Slowly the rock un-knows itself."
Norman Nicholson.
From The seven rocks: St Bees’ sandstone’.
(Norman Nicholson, Collected poems. Ed. Neil Curry. Faber & Faber 1994)
Created: May 05, 2017
Author: Joan Martin
© Joan Martin (PHOTO NORTH). All Rights Reserved.
Photograph size: 19.4 Mpixels (55.6 MB uncompressed) - 3600x5400 pixels (12x18 in / 30.5x45.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Photograph keywords: coast, dramatic, Fleswick Bay, red, sandstone, St Bees, St. Bees Sandstone, Triassic
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