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Sea Stack Climbing UK
The Stack Climbing Guide to Britain - by Chris Mellor
Sea Stack Climbing UK
A stack is not an island. How can you tell the difference? A rough and ready
definition is: if its top is further across than the height then it is an island
- or a low rock. I think a stack should be at least 30 feet high. Below that
it is a rock. A stack need not be a perpendicular tower. Blackchurch Rock is
a stack even though its main face is a triangular-shaped slab. However, a stack
should be rocky on all sides and involve scrambling at the very least to get
to the top. Gannet Rock on Lundy scrapes in by the skin of its teeth on this
count.
Why do stacks happen?
The answer is water solubility. Stacks are created by water - sea, rain -dissolving
the rock along lines of weakness such as bedding planes and vertical joints.
The rock has to have these weaknesses for the water to do its work but to be
otherwise strong enough to withstand wind and storm after it is created as a
sentinel standing in advance, as it were, of the cliffs and thus attracting the
full force of storm waves.
Sea Stack Climbing UK - Stack Areas Around The UK
There are about 300 stacks listed in this catalogue with 40 in England, 10 in
Wales, 5 in Ireland and 245 in Scotland. Of these about a 110 are located around
the coasts of Shetland and of these about 80 are around the coast of Mainland.
Stacks tend to occur in the north because that's where the stack-producing rocks
are. The distribution may also be a function of the stormy weather of the northern
seas around the UK which may erode rocks faster.
No Cornish Stacks?
There are stacks in Cornwall, e.g. Bedruthan Steps, Kynance Cove and the north
Cornwall coast, but they are of little interest to climbers, being low in height
and generally more like conical rocks than pinnacles
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of these words or the place is known by different names by different peoples.
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