Kevin Milkins
06-Nov-09, 17:56
For anyone interested in geology, Reiss beach is a good place to be just now.
The storms and winds of recent weeks have washed and blown the sand off all the rocks laying on the shoreline and have uncovered a fantastic range of rocks that has not seen for much of the year.
As Dog-eared pointed out in a previous thread,(http://forum.caithness.org/images/misc/subscribed.gif stones (http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=58917)) many of the rocks could have been brought to these shores as ballast on ships that have come to collect corn or Caithness flag and I find them very fascinating and objects of much beauty.
I think when they get dumped over bored, the kelp attaches its roots to the rocks so that it can stabilise itself to feed and grow, and then when a big strong storm comes the kelp gets washed up with the rock still attached to the root.
The storms and winds of recent weeks have washed and blown the sand off all the rocks laying on the shoreline and have uncovered a fantastic range of rocks that has not seen for much of the year.
As Dog-eared pointed out in a previous thread,(http://forum.caithness.org/images/misc/subscribed.gif stones (http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=58917)) many of the rocks could have been brought to these shores as ballast on ships that have come to collect corn or Caithness flag and I find them very fascinating and objects of much beauty.
I think when they get dumped over bored, the kelp attaches its roots to the rocks so that it can stabilise itself to feed and grow, and then when a big strong storm comes the kelp gets washed up with the rock still attached to the root.