Landscape Matters Issue 4 FINAL - Flipbook - Page 30
Devon shore
Rock formation
colossal striation.
Imagine the force at creation.
These shapes
and these planes
rise from the sand
as extending a hand
in supplication.
Help me escape this
suffocating embrace
of terrestrial thrall.
Poem by T.W. Evans
Hartland cliffs 68 cms x 106 cms
Devon was at the margin of a super continent that collided with another to the
Woodblock print by Merlyn Chesterman
South. Hartland Quay, as a result during the Variscan Orogeny, was buckled
and folded, producing the spectacular folds exposed in the cliffs today- the top
surface then being eroded flat.
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