page_title: Port Talbot
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Port Talbot / Geology
caption_attribution_description: English: Margam Abbey. Entrance to nave
context_page_description: Port Talbot is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately 8 miles from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south of the town and is one of the biggest steelworks in the world but has for many years been under threat of closure. The population was 37,276 in 2011.
context_section_description: Port Talbot has a variety of bedrock and drift types.
caption: Margam Abbey
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