The Hastings Beds

[poliphilo]

Dig down a foot in our garden and you hit impacted sand- pure enough to build castles with. This means that not so long ago- just a hop, skip and a jump in geologic time- our part of South-Eastern England was under water. Wikipedia tells me that if one were lucky one might find plesiosaur bones in the mix- and that the proper name for the formation is The Hastings Beds.

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[cmcmck]

Our local strangeness, the 'Ercall uncomformity' was once at the bottom of a precambrian sea but is now a thousand feet above sea level!

[poliphilo]

Ercall Unconformity- what a wonderful name!

[cmcmck]

Isn't it though? :o)

[sovay]

Wikipedia tells me that if one were lucky one might find plesiosaur bones in the mix- and that the proper name for the formation is The Hastings Beds.

I hope you have plesiosaurs under your garden.

We have rocks, rocks, and more rocks, as I learned in high school when my parents built an addition on to their house. The whole of coastal Massachusetts is the terminal moraine of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. If you get out to Cape Cod, it is formally called the Outer Lands, which I envy.