Sidestrand, Norfolk

Rapidly eroding coastline etc etc. Geological Field Guide to Sidestrand

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Glaciotectonic structures

The Anglian ice sheet stood in North Norfok for a long period towards the end of the glaciation, creating the Cromer Ridge and associated structures. The cliffs at Sidestrand provide a cross-section through the ridge.

Glaciotectonic thrust, including a chalk raft in the cliff	Sidestrand beach 25.2.2010	DSCF4880.jpg
Glaciotectonic thrust, including a chalk raft in the cliff	Sidestrand beach 25.2.2010	DSCF4877.jpg
Glaciotectonic thrust, including a chalk raft in the cliff	Sidestrand beach 2.5.2009	DSCF0541.jpg
Base of a glaciotectonic thrust, below a chalk raft in the cliff	Sidestrand beach 2.5.2009	DSCF0555.jpg
A photomontage of the superb glaciotectonic thrust stack involving not only Chalk but the Wroxhamn Crag too and an earlier of the Anglian Glaciation above that.	Sidestrand beach About 1985	cliffs_b.jpg

More pictures to come...

Martin Warren, The Northfolk Project
20.11.2022