(Watchet, faulting) - 1994

Watchet is very interesting for geology, there are many major faults at Watchet which can be seen in these two photos.

The cliffs, west of Watchet are of the Keuper Marl beds of the Triassic. To the East, the beds fault, and the Lower Lias are now present. Well over 500ft of beds extending up to the semicostatum zone. About 40ft of limestone's and shale's with psiloceras planorbis are succeeded by a thick sequence of shale's with a few thin limestone's.

As you continue walking West, major faulting changes the formation back to Triassic.

(Strata in cliff at Watchet) - 2003

(Triassic beds overlying the Jurassic Lias) - 2002

(Hard limestone platform on the foreshore) - 2002

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Jurassic	Late	Volgian	Portlandian		142 to 147
			Tithonian
					147 to 150
		Kimmeridgian		Late	150 to 154
				Early
		Oxfordian	Corallian		154 to 159.4
			Late Oxford Clay
	Middle	Callovian	Middle Oxford Clay		159 to 165
			Early Oxford Clay
			Kellaways
			Late Cornbrash
		Bathonian	Early Cornbrash		165 to 170
			Forest Marble
			Frome Formation
			Wattonensis Beds
			Fullers Earth
			Zigzag Beds
		Bajocian	Late Inferior Oolite		170 to 177
			Middle Inferior Oolite
		Aalenian	Early Inferior Oolite		177 to 180.1
			Scissum Beds
			Bridport Sands
	Early	Toarcian (Late Lias)			180 to 190
		Pliensbachian (Middle and Early Lias)			190 to 195
		Sinemurian (Early Lias)			195 to 201
		Hettangian (Early Lias)			201 to 205.7

Triassic	Late	Rhaetian	Penarth group	206 to 210
			Mercia Mudstone group
		Norian		210 to 220
		Carnian		220 to 227.4
	Middle	Ladinian		227 to 233
		Anisian		233 to 241.7
	Early	Scythian	Olenekian	242 to 244
			Induan	244 to 248.2

Hettangian 201 to 205.7 MYA
FORMATIONS AND DEPOSITS			LOCATIONS
E A R L Y L I A S	Early Blue Lias		Blue Anchor St Audries Bay Lilstock Hinkley Point Quantoxhead Chippel Bay Doniford Bay Watchet
	Redcar Mudstone Formation	Early Calcareous Shales

Dunrobin Bay Formation	Lady's Walk Shale	Golspie
	White Sandstone	Golspie
	Carbonaceous Siltstone	Golspie

Mercia Mudstone Group (Norian, Carnian, Ladinian) 210 - 233 MYA
FORMATIONS AND DEPOSITS			LOCATIONS
M E R C I A M U D S T O N E G R O U P	Red (Keuper) Marls		Aust Watchet St Audries Bay Doniford Bay
	Tea Green Marls		Aust Lilstock
	Blue Anchor Formation
	Sully Beds

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