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Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...
The Kame, Foula, Shetland, 376 m above the North Atlantic, second highest sea cliff in the UK; St John's Head, Hoy, Orkney, 335m above the North Atlantic, highest purely vertical sea cliff in the UK [1] Hangman cliffs, Devon 318 m above Bristol Channel is the highest sea cliff in England
The area is largely unspoiled and attracts surfers, dog-walkers, riders and summer picnickers. Seacliff Harbour is a sheltered spot accessible through a narrow channel, all blasted out of the red sandstone cliffs.
The cliff face of Cabo Girão The sheer cliff face of Cabo Girão. It is situated less than two kilometres west from the centre of Câmara de Lobos, between the parishes of Quinta Grande and Câmara de Lobos. A diamond-shaped sea-cliff escarpment from 560 metres (1,840 ft) to 589 metres (1,932 ft) above sea level, Cabo Girão lies between two ...
Land's End, England. A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.It is a type of promontory.
Slieve League or Slieve Liag [3] (Irish: Sliabh Liag, meaning 'mountain of stone pillars') [4] is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland.At 601 metres (1,972 ft), it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland after Croaghaun, [5] and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe.
Well-known coasts with living cliffs in Germany are the Red Cliff (Rote Kliff) in Kampen on the island of Sylt or the chalk cliffs on the Jasmund Peninsula. The Königsstuhl on the island of Rügen is a good example of a dead cliff. Others may be found in the regions of the present-day Wadden Sea coast of the North Sea a few kilometres inland ...
In the book Sea Cliff Climbing, John Cleare and Robin Collomb said "A few enthusiasts believe that coasteering will become popular and has a big future". In the late 1980s Andy Middleton of Twr-y-Felin Outdoor Centre developed it as a commercially guided recreational activity initially along the cliff coastline of St.Davids in Pembrokeshire in ...