Easily visible from Oddicombe Beach, faulting has caused a section of red coloured breccias of the Permian age to drop down next to the pale limestones. Within another section of the cliff the pressures of the Variscan Ororgeny, mountain building era, are evident where the rocks are in fact turned upside down, the dark slates at the bottom of the cliff are actually younger than the limestones at the top!