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The cliffs of West Runton were once part of the Cromer Forest Bed formation which is exposed at intervals along the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk, from Weybourne to Kessingland. The forest bed was formed in the Quaternary Period and dates to between 700,000 and 500,000 years ago.
West Runton Cliffs is a 17.8-hectare (44-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Sheringham in Norfolk, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The Cromer Forest-bed Formation, sometimes known as the Cromer Forest Bed, is a geological formation in Norfolk, England.It consists of river gravels, estuary and floodplain sediments predominantly silt, sand, and muds as well as peat along the coast of northern Norfolk. [1]
The West Runton Mammoth is a fossilized skeleton of a steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) found in the cliffs of West Runton in the county of Norfolk, England in 1990. [1] The find is the largest nearly complete mammoth skeleton known, and is the oldest found in the United Kingdom.
Runton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk consisting of the villages of East Runton and West Runton. It covers an area of 5.44 km 2 (2.10 sq mi) and had a population of 1,633 in 784 households at the 2001 census , [ 1 ] the population increasing to 1,667 at the 2011 Census. [ 2 ]
Beacon Hill is a part of the Cromer Ridge which is a ridge of old glacial moraines (terminal moraine) that stands next to the coast above Cromer. [5] The Cromer Ridge seems to have been the front line of the ice sheet for some time at the last glaciations, which is shown by the large size of the feature.
East Runton Cliffs is a 20.6-hectare (51-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Cromer in Norfolk, England. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3] [4] The foreshore exposes Lower Pleistocene sediments, including large blocks of glacitectonic (transported by ice) chalk. There are many fossils, including ...
Beeston Regis is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. [2] It is about a mile (2 km) east of Sheringham, Norfolk and near the coast.. The village is 2 miles (3 km) west of Cromer and 16 miles (26 km) north of the city of Norw