Qualla: GeoMôn https://qualla.com/geomon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: GeoMôn https://qualla.com/geomon GeoMôn: Introduction https://qualla.com/geomon/ On Anglesey you can walk across a billion years of geological time in an afternoon. The whole island is the type locality for a rock type - melange - that the geologist Edward Greenly named here in the early twentieth century when he first mapped the place. Llanddwyn Island, a small green hump off the west coast, is a complete fragment of ancient oceanic plate with pillow lavas at its eastern tip that solidified at a Precambrian sea-floor rift more than half a billion years ago. South Stack's folded cliffs were once thought to be the oldest Precambrian rock in Britain, then the youngest, and now read as Cambrian. In May 2009, UNESCO admitted the whole 720-square-kilometre island as a Global Geopark, the second in Wales and the seventh in the United Kingdom - recognition that here, more than almost anywhere on Earth its size, the basic chapters of geology lie exposed at the coast.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/geomon-wp/gckz-geom-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full GeoMôn: The Rocks That Named Themselves https://qualla.com/geomon/ Edward Greenly came to Anglesey in the late 1890s and spent twenty years walking the coast. The geological complexity baffled the categories then available, so he invented a new one. Melange - from the French for 'mixture' - describes a jumbled rock body in which blocks of one ki...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/geomon-wp/gckz-geom-n-the-rocks-that-named-themselves.mp3 0:06 2 full GeoMôn: A Pillow on the Plate https://qualla.com/geomon/ On the west coast, Llanddwyn Island reads like an exhibition card for plate tectonics. Pillow lavas - bulbous, billowy formations that form only when basalt erupts underwater and chills against the sea - lie at its eastern tip. These were created at a constructive plate margin so...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/geomon-wp/gckz-geom-n-granite-and-memory.mp3 0:06 4 full GeoMôn: The Visitor Centre and the Coast https://qualla.com/geomon/ The Watch House at Porth Amlwch serves as the Geopark visitor centre, open every day except Monday between ten and four. Inside are leaflets for self-guided trails covering the most accessible sites - South Stack's screaming kittiwakes above folded quartzite, the copper-coloured ...

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