Portballintrae ASSI

Topics:

Biodiversity,
Protected areas

Protected area type: Areas of Special Scientific Interest

Feature type: Earth Science

County: Antrim

Council: Antrim and Newtownabbey

Guidance and literature: Portballintrae ASSI

The cliff at Portballintrae consists of a series of sediments and features indicating the pattern of sediment deposition and fluctuations in the relative level of sand and sea.

They date from the latter stages of ice sheet retreat, some 17,000 years ago.

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Portballintrae ASSI