Looking towards Pencannow Point from Crackington Haven beach (Aug 1992)

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pedrocut, on March 28, 2010, said:

The village gives its name to the Crackington Formation, a sequence of Carboniferous sandstones and grey shales laid down around 325 million years ago.

The formation was subject to compression during the Variscan Orogeny causing dramatic folds.

See here for detailed information

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ZEUS74, on March 29, 2010, said:

very nice photo

greetings from Spain

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Photo taken in Saint Gennys, Cornwall, UK

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