As child growing up on the south coast of Devon in the UK, I never really realised that our beaches were unusual. A glorious, glowing orange-red colour, the cliffs that you can see in this photograph by Sarah Weick produced similarly red sand beaches and warm ochre soils. The bright colour is the result of the sandstone and conglomerates of these rocks, collectively called the New Red Sandstones, ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Red triassic sandstone
Red triassic sandstone (Orcombe Rocks, East Devon). Credit: Sarah Weick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
