Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of high cliffs on visit to the West Coast. The Scottish coastline has a complex geology, and the sea has carved out softer rocks and lines of weakness to produce a spectacularly varied landscape. Scottish cliffs in clay and other soft deposits usually overlie bedrock. This protects them from much of the rapid erosion seen in true soft cliffs such as those of north Norfolk, England. Structural features of sea cliffs include: caves, overhangs, natural arches and bridges and flying buttresses. Since the word cliff has no agreed definition, estimates of the total length of Scotland’s cliffs vary, from 1,778km to 4,060km. This latter figure represents some 60% of Britain’s cliffs. Seabirds can find a nesting ledge on most types of rock.
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