Visiting my native village (Helsby, Cheshire) over the holidays and continuing to find myself spotting examples of cross-bedding. This is Triassic sandstone, laid down in a desert environment, so the cross-bedding is quite large: the little flashlight is 9.5cm long. Helsby Hill is the type location for this formation: the Helsby sandstone formation, part ofContinue reading Back home on the Triassic sandstone