A small, select group - we set off first for Filey Brigg - this is Carr Naze, glacial till on top of the Coralline Oolite Formation	Strange things embedded in the rocks - any guesses what this might be?
Reaching the Brigg, you can look back and see the dip of the bedding	Strange round markings in the rocks - another puzzle for us.
"Cannonball" concretions typical of the Saintoft member of the Lower Calcareous Grit Formation	The oolite on the North side of the Brigg has been carved into circular hollows known as "doodles"
Bioturbation on under side of bedding; time to escape the incoming tide, and go to Cayton	Wavy line on left reveals same greeny clay under the sand as at base of cliff on right
Osgodby Point, the same fault runs right through that and to left of Scarborough castle	This is the fault at Red Cliff (downthrow to the west - on the right)
The lower part of the cliffs at Cayton Bay is the Osgodby Formation - note where a nodule has fallen out on the left	- and here is a nodule still in place!  Shale from the Oxford Clay above has fallen down either side - Yvonne for scale.
Still moving North - now at Robin Hood's Bay	Ah! Some ammonites in the shale!
Nodule embedded in the cliff face	Heavy rain causing a lot of slippage
The layers of shale above crumble away, revealing the harder platforms beneath	Pebbly covering on the more resistant layer, left after the shales have been eroded away
Saltwick formation exposure in the West cliff at Whitby	More of the same - lovely sedimentary structures!

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Thanks to Yvonne Cutt of SEOUGS, for taking us with her on this weekend!