Editing Arbroath (section)

===The shoreline===
South west of the harbour lies an area of craggy rocks with a large number of rock pools exposed at low tide. Rocks, boulders and shingle extend for about nine hundred metres to Arbroath West Links (or Elliot) beach. This gently sloping beach is of mixed sand and pebbles and the sea here is a designated bathing water site of about {{Convert|1.3|km|mi}} in length. The main access to the beach is via a slipway, but there are also steps down from the coastal path. Depending on the tide, the width of the beach can vary from twenty to two hundred metres.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2020 |title=Bathing Water Profile for Arbroath (West Links) |url=https://www.sepa.org.uk/media/39203/arbroath-west-links-bathing-water-profile.pdf |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=Scottish Environment Protection Agency}}</ref>

Arbroath (or Seaton) cliffs rise about {{Convert|1|mile|km}} north east of the harbour. Whiting Ness at the end of the King's Drive promenade is an example of geological angular [[unconformity]]; a coarse conglomerate of late [[Devonian]] upper red [[sandstone]] overlies early Devonian lower red sandstone.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Browne |first=M A E |title=Whiting Ness, Angus: The Old Red Sandstone of Great Britain |url=https://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/d156c160-558d-4855-9927-6066e183045e/gcr-v31-old-red-sandstone-c3.pdf |access-date=8 February 2023 |publisher=British Geological Survey |page=166}}</ref>

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