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DURING Easter 1947, an inspection was made of the seaweed cast up on the west mainland of Orkney. One heavy cast, 3 ft. thick at the water's edge, was found in a sandy bay north of the graveyard northwest of Stromness and opposite the northern extremity of Hoy. The coast is rocky with sandy bays. The rocks are Old Red Sandstone, which erode to form flat slabs sloping towards the sea. About half a mile offshore, a reef of similar rock formation is exposed at low water. There is little chance of anything remaining intact before being cast ashore as the Atlantic waters break on this coast.
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WALKER, F. Tellina magna found in Orkney. Nature 163, 682 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163682a0
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