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  1. Folded and faulted sequence of Carboniferous (Westphalian) sandstons and shales from the Bude Formation, exposed north of the seapool at Summerleaze Beach in Bude, Cornwall, England. The Bude Formation was deposited in a basin at the northern edge of the closing Rheic Ocean and was then deformed in the Variscan orogeny...

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  2. Taken from near the lifeguard lookout hut, this panorama shows the interbedded sandstones and shales of the Westphalian Bude Formation in the wave-cut platform of Summerleaze Beach, at Bude, in North Cornwall. The panorama was taken towards the west and the beds have a roughly east-west strike (typically we measured ar...

  3. This syncline is at Summerleaze Beach, Bude, Cornwall. The interbedded shales and sandstones are from the Bude Formation, deposited during the Westphalian (Upper Carboniferous) as the last remnants of the Rheic ocean were infilled with sediment. The photograph is taken facing East, roughly along the strike of the beds....

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