The recent storms have caused some more cuttings in the submerged forest exposures, revealing once again the layer of stictly clay till underneath. These photos have kindly been posted on Facebook by Gary Davies, and they are the best ones I have seen yet of a fresh till at the eastern extremity of the S Pembs coast.
We are quite close to the cliffline here, and perhaps inevitably the sticky clay till (I think we can refer to it as Irish Sea Till) has incorporated a lot of blocky and angular material from the accumulated slope breccia beneath the cliffs. With the onset of glaciation, sea level falls, and slope breccia accumulates, over many thousands of years, to be overridden at last by glacier ice.......
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