Gower Field Guide

A field guide to the solid geology of the Gower Peninsula

by Ted Nield

Contents

Introduction

• How to use this guide
• Equipment and safety

I Gower - A part of Earth History

• Constant process, changing world
• Looking at rocks - succession and structure 
• Between the coalfield and the channel 
• The story of the rocks

II The structure of Gower - five guided tours

• A stroll along the prom (Swansea Bay)
• All that you survey (Cefn Bryn) 
• Caswell Bay 
• Three Cliffs Bay 
• Rhosili

III Other sites of Geological Interest

• Introduction
• Misfit streams and vanished rivers 
• Pwll Du and the quarrymen of Gower 
• Paviland Cave; Dr Buckland's scarlet woman 
• Port Eynon and T.N.George

Acknowledgements and suggested further reading

Glossary

This Guide is listed on: "Wales on the Web" and by the City and County of Swansea


Picture - the South West coast of Gower, seen from Port Eynon westwards to Worm's Head, Rhosili. The blade-like promontory in the middle distance is The Knave. One of the wildest cliff stretches in Britain. Photo - Ted Nield.