Blue sky day view, in the summer of 1975, looking north from the green grass cliff-top across Marsden Bay, with Magnesian Limestone Cliffs, sea stacks and Marsden Rock, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, North East England, UK
Marsden Rock is a picture postcard sea stack at Marsden Bay, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. The 30 metre high sea stack is formed from 250 million year old Upper Magnesian Limestone. The stack is about 91 metres from the cliff-face and is accessible by foot at low tide. Rock collapse formed the large arch in 1911. In 1996, continued marine erosional processes, assisted by freeze-thaw weathering during a cold winter, weakened the roof of the arch to the point of collapse, leaving two separate stacks. In 1997 the resulting smaller stack, deemed unsafe, was demolished in the interests of public safety. The tall structure on the cliff-top (left mid-distance) is the lift to and from the Marsden Grotto Public House , cut into the foot of the cliffs opposite Marsden Rock. A blue sky, summer day view from the cliff-top looking north across Marsden Bay with sea stacks and Marsden Rock, as it was in 1975.
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Location: Marsden Bay, with Marsden Rock and stacks, looking north, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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