South Stack Formation, Anglesey
Wales

All along the North West coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, there are stunning outcrops of folds.

Those at South Stack are especially good for showing how smaller folds can form on the “backs” of larger ones – in a truly stunning display of structural geology.
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Images (top to bottom):
- Anticline in the South Stack formation © Sarah Wardlaw
- Folding below the lighthouse © Richard Johnson (Source Geograph.org.uk) Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license
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