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The Yorktown Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in the Coastal Plain of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is overconsolidated and highly fossiliferous . Description
It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Bay. As-Salif is recognized for its large deposits of rock salt . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Historically, the salt was exported to India. [ 2 ]
Salcombe Regis is a coastal village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sidmouth, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England.Mentioned in the Domesday Book as "a manor called Selcoma" held by Osbern FitzOsbern, bishop of Exeter, the manor house stood on the site now occupied by Thorn Farm.
A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion. Wave-cut platforms are often most obvious at low tide when they become visible as huge areas of flat rock.
Bedrock geological map of Ireland. Layers of Upper Carboniferous sedimentary rocks, Loop Head, County Clare. The geology of Ireland consists of the study of the rock formations on the island of Ireland. It includes rocks from every age from Proterozoic to Holocene and a large variety of different rock types is represented.
The town of Bedrock was established in 1883. [3] The Bedrock post office opened on November 8, 1883. [5] The town's general store and post office were built on solid rock, hence the name. [3] The general store originally served the ranching community of Paradox Valley and later also served uranium miners in the 20th century. [6]
La Digue is the third most populated island [3] of the Seychelles, and fourth largest by land area, [4] lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island.In size, it is the fourth-largest granitic island of Seychelles after Mahé, Praslin, and Silhouette Island.
Studland is a village and civil parish [1] on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.The village is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, from which it is separated by Poole Harbour.