Pendower - Where to look for Fossils?

Where to look for Fossils at Pendower?

Devonian at first. (2004)

As we travel towards the eastern end of the bay you will cross a small stream and will see that the Devonian rocks begin to spread across the beach.

A little further on and we start to encounter much older rocks from the Ordovician period called Quartzite, this rock is scattered all along the beach and the blocks vary in size some being some several metres high and weighing many tons to others that are just the size of small pebbles.

This rock is a type of fine grained sandstone that has been mixed with quartz, it is extremely hard (harder than granite) and comes in many different colours. These are the rocks that contain the remains of shells, and rarely trilobites from the Ordovician period.

Images. Content - (C)opyright - 2005 Richard Menari
Editing, Graphics and additional information (C)opyright 1998-2006 Alister Cruickshanks
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