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| Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, Cornwall |
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| Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, Cornwall,
comprises a coastal section which provides excellent exposures of
deformed Carboniferous sediments, folded during the Variscan Orogeny.
The site is of major importance for research into the mechanisms and
timing of different phases of deformation during the Variscan Orogeny.
It is also a classic educational site for learning about structural
geology because of the excellent exposure and is visited by numerous
university and school parties. The site is robust and the only real
threat to its conservation would be coastal defences. |
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Spectacular folds, formed during the
Variscan Orogeny and now exposed in the cliffs at Millook, part of
the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, Cornwall. |
| Photo: Mick Murphy, Natural England. |
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