Dunbar Coastline
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Dunbar Coastline
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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The town of Dunbar is on the North Sea coast of East Lothian, Scotland. The town is renowned for its high sunshine record, rugged coastline and attractive countryside.
The coastline geology is dominated by limestone, you can also see other sedimentary rocks, including sandstone, mudstone and a thin coal seam. This is an ideal place to see lots of fossils and collect from loose material. The rocks are about 320 million years old (from the Carboniferous Period) and were laid down as soft sediment when Scotland was located just south of the Equator, and the climate was tropical, both hot and wet. The cliffs are mostly composed of 345 million-year-old red volcanic ash. Around Dunbar Castle and the Battery you will find harder lumps of igneous rock from inside one of the volcanic craters.
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March 23rd, 2019
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