Questions tagged [regional-geology]

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What caused the Cretaceous uplift of the Harz mountains (Germany)

What are the likely stresses that caused the uplift of the Harz mountains? Was the uplift connected to another orogeny, lithospheric-scale folding or a mantle process?
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Identification of rock formation along Wales coast

I hope that you can help me, my wife and I visited National Trust - Stackpole, Pembrokeshire last week where I took a couple of hundred photos. I've attached a photo of the coloured cliffs there. For me to enter this into one of our club…