3.9 - PORTH CLAIS - ST JUSTINIAN`S
Raised Beach -2- Porth Clais
View Over Ogof Golchfa ( Washing Place Cave ) to a rugged coastline with
a wave cut rock platform and a raised beach above .
About 130,000 to 125,000 years ago - the Ipswichian Interglacial Period - rising sea levels
caused by melting of Ice sheets created new wave cut platforms with beach deposits.
These deposits are now 2-6 metres above present high water.
About 3.5m of raised beach deposits are above the platform.
Ref: 6682
Date: 02/04/2010
Location: SM 740 236
