Between Nicholson’s Road [J296 126] and Kilkeel Harbour [J316 140] a 1.5-4.0m thick sequence of stratified sand and gravel overlies diamict in a continuous cliffline 2.6km long and up to 14m high. The sand and gravel consists of tabular, low-angle cross-stratified, fine- to medium-grained sand beds and tabular to interbedded sand and gravel. A sharp, planar junction occurs below the gravel at the contact with the underlying mainly diamict facies. Between Nicholson’s Road and Crawford’s Point [J302 122] the contact with underlying diamict and mud is marked for 500m by a discontinuous line of glacially bevelled cobbles and boulders. At other locations a unit of continuous tabular stratified sand (<2m thick) consists of occasionally massive and frequently horizontal, cross- or hummocky cross-stratified sand beds (<30cm thick) with planar to undulating contacts. Sand commonly contains gravel lenses, particularly near the top of the facies. There are occasional small cross-cutting channels (<1m across).
The sand is overlain by generally well-sorted stratified sand and gravel with a tabular geometry (<3.5m thick). Beds (<50cm thick) are laterally continuous and are texturally uniform. The exposure shows an overall coarsening upward trend and uppermost beds are frequently composed of clast supported cobbles. Cobble beds (<1m thick) are massive. The most extensive beds are of clast to matrix supported pebbles with disc and blade forms dominant. Low angle cross stratification and channels occasionally occur within the gravel beds. Stacked beds (<15cm thick) of normally graded gravel with clasts up to cobble size alternate with beds of coarse sand (<15cm thick) with a total depth up to 2m.
