Old Man of Hoy, Hoy, Orkney
Photo Ref: P000613, "IPR/52-34CW BGS©NERC. All rights reserved"

Cliffs and sea-stacks composed of sandstone laid down by rivers and ephemeral desert lakes within the late Devonian Orcadian cuvette.

Conival mountain, Tralligill valley, Assynt, north-west Scotland
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Mountains formed from Cambrian quartzite and limestone beds, initially deposited on the margin of the Laurentian Shield, now caught up in a series of overlapping thrust sheets within the Moine Thrust Zone of NW Scotland. The Ben More Thrust plane cuts across the face of the mountain.

Giants Causeway, North Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland
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A spectacularly well-developed example of columnar jointing in a basalt lava flow. The lavas were erupted by shield volcanoes during the Palaeocene, and cover much of the Antrim Plateau and extend across to the southern Scottish Hebrides.

Coniston Fells, Cumbria
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Typical rugged glacially-sculpted landscape of the
Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the English Lake District.

North Pennines by Pately Bridge Yorkshire
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Wind- and rain-sculpted tors composed of typically cross-bedded sandstone of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit Group. Landform created by differential erosion during cold to peri-glacial conditions during, or immediately after, the last ice-age.

Loch Borralan, by Ledmore, NW Scotland
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Landscape developed over intrusive igneous complex within the Moine Thrust Zone of NW Scotland. The intrusion gives one of the few indicators of the age of the Caledonian thrust movements in NW Scotland.

Loch Kishorn, Applecross area of NW Scotland
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Torridonian rocks deposited in a deep Proterozoic rift formed on the margin of the Laurentian plate, prior to the onset of the Caledonian Orogeny.

The Green Bridge of Wales
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A natural arch eroded into Carboniferous Limestone.

Chalk Cliffs, Studland, Dorset
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Cliffs and sea-stacks cut into layered, late Cretaceous, Chalk. The chalk with its characteristic flint bands was deposited in a tropical sea which covered virtually the entire British landmass.