Millook , Cornwall. The cliffs display a series of recumbent chevron folds and faults, regarded to be the best example in UK.

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The cliffs at Millook exhibit a superb series of recumbent chevron folds in Carboniferous age killas of interbedded sandstones and shales. Killas is a Cornish mining term for metamorphic rock strata of sedimentary origin altered by heat and pressure from intruded granite and is aoplied to various rocks in Devon and Cornwall. In 2014, the site was recognised by the Geological Society of London as the best example of folding and faulting and one of the ten most important Geological sites in the

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Location: Millook Haven, Near Bude, Cornwall, UK
Photo credit: © Paul Martin / Alamy / Afripics
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