Tag: Joppa Shore

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Rocky Joppa foreshore looking west towards Portobello, with sea defences and the pumping station, cropped from original photograph 14048.

Joppa Shore

Along Joppa Shore, east of Portobello, tilted Carboniferous rocks record changing seas, river deltas and coal-forming wetlands. Plant remains, crinoid stems and shells link the fossils to those different environments, while the rocky foreshore reveals a long succession from marine limestones to sandstone and coal measures. Carboniferious, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦