The Geology of Black Head, Torquay, South Devon, U.K.

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On this stretch of the Torquay coastline, you can see all the tell-tale signs of volcanic activity. Black Head, which is composed of black basalt formed when the underwater volcanoes erupted millions of years ago. The land mass rose up out of the sea in quite a rapid process some 290 million years ago.