Looking southwest from Bandon's south jetty, you can see the numerous sea stacks that are so characteristic of Oregon's southern coast. The rock unit here is Otter Point Formation, a highly variable and highly faulted melange. The combination of rock variability- from poorly consolidated graywacke and serpentinite to very tough blueschist- and abrupt transitions between them along with fracturing due to faulting results in extremes of differential weathering and erosion. The end product is a grand coastline that is as nice as any I've seen elsewhere.
Photo unmodified. March 9, 2012.
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