The Geology around Hull

Photographs of sites

arranged stratigraphically

 

Sands Top Quarry RIGS at North Newbald with exposures of the Cave Oolite

Reef structures at Betton Farm Quarry SSSI

South Cave Station Quarry SSSI with exposures of the Kellaways Sands

Filey from Speeton

The Speeton Clay at Speeton SSSI :- a mudflow , the E-bed at the base of the Speeton Clay;Middle Cliff ; Black Cliff ; a beach exposure

South Ferriby Quarry SSSI, North Lincolnshire - Red Chalk; blocks of the Grey Bed (mid Cenomanian) and in situ; The Black Band Member (Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary)

Red Chalk at Speeton

The Chalk of Buckton Cliff from Speeton

Bishop Wilton RIGS

Melton Bottoms SSSI Turonian Chalk

Arras Hill Chalk Pit RIGS :- view, Arras Flint, Arras Flint close-up, and a marl band

Enthorpe Railway Cutting SSSI and a view of folding in the Chalk

Willerby Chalk Pit and a close up of a twin flint

Eppleworth Chalk Pit RIGS (Upper Coniacian) with tabular flints

Steeply dipping chalk at Langtoft RIGS

Vertical Chalk at Foxholes RIGS

Middleton Chalk Pit RIGSand close up of the Middleton Marl and Middleton Flint

Folding in flintless (Lower Santonian) chalk and a cave at Selwicks Bay, near Flamborough Lighthouse. Close up of some of the bedding structures

High Stacks, Flamborough

The Flamborough Cliffs from Sewerby

Nafferton Grange RIGS

Bessingby Chalk Pit RIGS (fromer SSSI) (Lower Campanian) perhaps the youngest in situ Chalk in Yorkshire and a more recent photo

The Buried Cliff at Sewerby , another view and a close-up.

The Buried Cliff at Hessle Station, exposed in 1983

A 'raft' of soft chalk in the boulder clay. These are often Upper Campanian Chalk from the bed of the North Sea. Close up of a raft at Kilnsea

Boulder Clay Cliffs at Withernsea

Ice wedge casts at South Ferriby foreshore

Mere deposits at Skipsea, with close-up or tree trunk being eroded