On Bridlington side of the slipway
Slipway to section 1 is 19m
From left edge of section 1 11.6m is
obscured by a landslip
From landslip to first calcrete block is 13.3m
Calcrete block is 2.6m wide
Gap to next block is 4.4m (section 3?)
Next block is 4.4m wide
Exposure of chalk gravels is 2.8m
Recent landslip is 6.7m
Exposure of layered sandy silt overlying chalk gravels overlying solid chalk
15m wide (section 2?)
Base slope to solid chalk cliff is 2m
Sections measured listed from the top
Section 1
Cryoturbated Section measured left to right
At 0m
- 60cm finer Chalk Gravel,
- 120cm cryoturbated chalk gravel & sand
- 110cm Chalk with erratics
- 25cm large sandstone erratic
- 60cm in situ chalk
at 2 m
- 60cm finer chalk gravel
- 100cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- 140cm chalk rubble & erratics
- 30cm in situ chalk
at 4m
- 60cm finer chalk gravel
- 95cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- 130cm chalk rubble & erratics
- 30cm in situ chalk
at 5m
- 50cm finer chalk gravel
- 90cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- 135cm chalk rubble & erratics
- 20cm in situ chalk
at 6m
- 60cm finer chalk gravel
- 100cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- 120cm chalk rubble & erratics
- 15cm in situ chalk
at 7m
- ? 110 cm cry chalk gravel & sand (obscured)
- 110cm chalk rubble & erratics
- 0 in situ chalk
at 8m
- obscured
- 120cm chalk rubble & erratics
at 9m
- 90cm finer chalk gravel
- 80cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- 80cm chalk rubble & erratics
at 10m (note beach higher)
- 100cm finer chalk gravel
- 90cm cry chk gravel & sand
- 90cm chalk rubble & erratics
at 11m
- 90cm finer chalk gravel
- 90cm cry chalk gravel & sand
- ca 90cm chalk rubble & erratics
"Ice Wedges"
at 1m
- 40cm wide at top
- 65cm deep
- (note skewed to right - centre line 10cm from right)
at 2.3m
- 30 cm wide at top
- 45cm deep
at 2.7m
- 10cm wide at top
- 30cm deep
at 3.75m
- 40cm wide at top
- 60cm deep
at 4.4m
- 30cm wide at top
- 25cm deep
at 4.7m
- 20 cm wide at top
- 35cm deep
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Section 2
2m to right
- 1.85m chalk gravels and erratics with silty sand above
- 1.8m solid chalk
2m to right
- 1.6m chalk gravels and erratics with silty sand above
- 1.6m solid chalk
2m to right
- 1.85m chalk gravels and erratics with silty sand above
- 1.1m solid chalk
left of new slip
- 2m chalk gravels and erratics with silty sand above
- 1.2m solid chalk
right of new slip
- >3m chalk gravels and erratics with silty sand above
- 0m solid chalk visible
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section 3
left of landslip
- > 3m brown layered silty sand
- 40cm finer chalk gravels
- 60cm cryoturbated chalk gravels and sand
- 2m chalk gravel with erratics, coarser at base
2m to left
- 40cm finer chalk gravels
- 60cm cryoturbated layer of chalk gravels and sand
- 130cm chalk gravels with erratics
- 100cm chalk boulders and erratics and gravels
2m to left
- 30cm finer gravels
- 50cm cryoturbated gravels
- 120cm gravels and erratics
- 110cm boulders of chalk and erratics.