Saturday 23 April 2016

Pudding stone conglomerate on Conic Hill


An amazing feature on Conic Hill was the conglomerate rock. It had large rounded pebbles. It looked like concrete. They must have been transported a decent distance to have been rounded off like this. It was similar to the rock I found last summer on Rhossili Down. That was said to have come from a river delta millions of years ago. The visibility was so good when we visited that Arran is visible in the far distance in the top picture. Today I was at St Bees and saw pebbles on that beach.
Perhaps if I come back in millions of years time this will have become pudding stone. It puts the nature of time into some sort of perspective!