A Pembrokeshire Treasure Trove of information

 

This is the entry for Westdale Bay.  The citation makes no mention at all of the fact that this is one of the most important Quaternary sites in West Wales......

Sketch of the spectacular stratified deposits at the head of Westdale bay -- apparently unnoticed by the geologists who wrote the site citation......

I was looking up some sites around the Pembs coast, and I was struck yet again by how valuable this resource is:

https://www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RIGS-in-Pembrokeshire-SPG-Apr2020.pdf

The list of RIGS sites, and the maps and citations, are immensely valuable to researchers and the public, and the designations provide a degree of planning protection.

Rhosyfelin is the most recently added site, numbered 564.

Many of the key Quaternary sites are listed as RIGS sites, and the information on geology is (as far as I can see) reliable and up to date.  But the citations are very thin on geomorphology and Quaternary sediment sequences.  Here and there the citations need to be corrected and expanded, if our Ice Age features are to be duly respected.  Something for me to do in my spare time.........

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Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Local Development Plan

Regionally Important Geodiversity Sites in Pembrokeshire

Supplementary Planning Guidance to Local Development Plan 1 Adopted 12 October 2011.
Addendum Adopted September 2016

Interim Supplementary Planning Guidance to Local Development Plan 2 (September 2020)

Regionally Important Geodiversity Sites are funded and supported by Natural Resources Wales. They are designated outside the Local Development Plan process by Geoconservation Cymru–Wales. The Authority supports these designations with supplementary planning guidance which is updated when sites are newly designated.

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Here is my post on Westdale, indicating just how important it is:

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2018/11/devensian-deposits-at-westdale-bay.html