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Andrew Sinclair on at 1:41 pm
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Does the tidal Duff, impregnated with salt, burn with increased heat and intensity like it does here on the Fife coast over the Forth Estuary from what was Cokenzie Power Station?
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Andrew Sinclair on at 2:04 pm
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Is the light colored ‘pavement’ in the bottom foreground on the top of the bottom lie (hidden underground I presume) composed of limestone interspearsed with pipe rock type fossilized coastal prehistoric sand flat burrowing creatures like ‘lug worms’, for example?

Is the ‘chip’ off the yard, or so thick horizon above this limestone exposing a ‘basalt’ layer, intruded along the week ‘planktonic sea creature limestone layer’, baking the area above, or is it a cooked through rising heat layer and the intrusion not visible?

Have the bottom of the rich coal beds got brown ‘nuggets’ like cannonballs, or small ‘hens teeth’; iron rich metamorphosised nodules in the matrix of the boundary regions at the base of the coal seam above the brown metamorphosised, cooked brown hard layer; this brown hard layer being above the intruded granitic ‘finger’ and the more dense ‘leached’,iron rich ‘hardpan’ layers baked from the ‘Taiga’ with the Gleys above dryed and heated and trapped?

Basicly could you give me your take on how the strata were formed because they look very like a lot of the coastal scenery here in Fife between Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Wymess and Leuven. Also are the pebbles, similar in size to those on the South Coast (Dungeness), used in the ‘tidal wash’, break up of strata or is this carried out mechanically?