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Abandoned beach platform and cliff-line

Abandoned beach platform and cliff-line. Behind the present beach the land rises slowly to the well developed platform of the so called "25 foot Raised Beach", backed by a steep "fossil cliff" nearly 50 feet high. The top of this cliff lies at about 75 feet O.D., from which the land rises gently to the peneplained surface aof a plateau at 300-350 feet, which forms the southern part of the island. Much of it consists of Old Red Sandstone. Isle of Bute, Western Scotland. Monkhouse, 1959, p. 43.

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