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1:30,000 MAP 20 CLICK HERE TO VIEW LEGEND ABC 21 MAP 19 Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown Copyright Licence No: 100023393. Produced by the Technical Section Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Development Plans Path No. Path Name Path Type Length Geology at South Bay, to Saltcoats Coast SSSI GV1 NCN7 - Woodgreen to Road (Part of NCN) 14.5km TT10 Cycle Route Tarmac and Road 6.0km The formation of the rocks at the Ardrossan to Saltcoats Coast SSSI can be IK23 NCN73 - to Garnock Viaduct Tarmac 2.9km thought of as a two stage process, an original sedimentary stage in which the sediments were laid down and a second phase of intrusive igneous IK27 to Ardeer Tarmac and Road (Part of NCN) 3.4km activity. During the secondary igneous phase, molten igneous rock was IK56 NCN7 - Woodgreen to Blair Estate Tarmac and Road (Part of NCN) 3.2km forced into the sediments, producing the present arrangement of sedimentary and intrusive igneous rocks. Ardrossan At the start of the Carboniferous, approximately 350 million years ago, was on the southern margin of a large continent called Laurentia which also included North America and Northern Europe. To the north were the partly eroded Caledonian mountains and to the south a large ocean. Sediments eroded from the mountains to the north were deposited in deltas and lagoons and had occasional marine incursions, when the sea covered lowland areas, during the Carboniferous period. Into the Carboniferous sediments volcanic or igneous rocks have been pushed. The igneous activity Saltcoats was caused by crustal extension, rifting or pulling apart of the Earth's crust in the Carboniferous and early Permian, approximately 300 million years ago. The site contains features associated with the intrusion of igneous rocks into sediments, including examples of sills and dykes with baked and chilled margins. The sills show multiple intrusion events of magma of different compositions as well as differentiation within the main sill. The sediments are a good example of a varied Carboniferous sedimentary sequence, containing coal measures and fossilised tree stumps and shell fish. Stevenston

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