<p>This is Marloes Sand Beach, a classical fossil site. The nicely colored rocks are sandstones of the Silurian age (around 425 million years old). The different dipping angles of the sandstone layers are a result of tectonic processes, which were folding the rocks.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.google.de/amp/s/ukfossils.co.uk/2007/10/26/marloes-sands" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Further information about Marloes Sand can be found here</a> </p>

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2018-10-20T06:00:36.057Z
2018-10-20T06:00:36.057Z
JulPal
<p>I hope that you can help me, my wife and I visited National Trust - Stackpole, Pembrokeshire last week where I took a couple of hundred photos.<br>
I've attached a photo of the coloured cliffs there.  For me to enter this into one of our club competitions I need to know the correct terminology for the rock formation.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/zlYle.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/zlYle.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a>.</p>

<p>I hope that there is a someone who could let me know</p>

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Identification of rock formation along Wales coast
Michael Cross
# Identification of rock formation along Wales coast

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-19)

I hope that you can help me, my wife and I visited National Trust - Stackpole, Pembrokeshire last week where I took a couple of hundred photos.  
I've attached a photo of the coloured cliffs there. For me to enter this into one of our club competitions I need to know the correct terminology for the rock formation.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/zlYle.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/zlYle.jpg).

I hope that there is a someone who could let me know

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-10-20. Score: 4

This is Marloes Sand Beach, a classical fossil site. The nicely colored rocks are sandstones of the Silurian age (around 425 million years old). The different dipping angles of the sandstone layers are a result of tectonic processes, which were folding the rocks.

[Further information about Marloes Sand can be found here](https://www.google.de/amp/s/ukfossils.co.uk/2007/10/26/marloes-sands)


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