Aspects of the Geology of the Foreshore, Whitby to Saltwick Bay

The Dogger Formation unconformably overlying Lower Toarcian Shales can be clearly seen almost halfway up the cliff

Western side of a Channel wedging out into lateral accretion sets of point bar deposits.

Eastern side of the channel sandstone, now obscured by a cliff fall.

Fallen blocks of Saltwick Formation sandstone with carbonised plant remains. Site of the Whitby Plant Bed.

Diplocraterion is the classic example of a vertical burrow with spreite,

Notice also the conglomerate at the erosive base of the Dogger Formation

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