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The town on a busy Easter bank holiday weekend! Lyme is known as the ‘Pearl of Dorset’ and is rich in history. This view is from the Cobb, Lyme’s famous curvy harbour and this spot is where Meryl Streep stood during a storm in one of the early scenes from the film, ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, adopte...
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The classic view of the Purbeck coast, used by W.J. Arkell on the front cover of his famous memoir ‘The Geology of the Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth’. The rocks here straddle the Jurassic Cretaceous boundary. The boundary is somewhere in the beach, between the strikingly banded Purbeck Beds ...
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The Centre is located right on the beach at Charmouth. This part of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast) is famous for fossils and the Centre aims to help people explore the geology and fossils, together with marine life. Expert fossil wardens are on hand to help people discover foss...
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One of the all time classic views of the Dorset coast and countryside with Chesil Beach, the Fleet Lagoon, Abbotsbury, the Isle of Portland and the Weymouth anticline, a huge fold in the rocks that makes this place what it is.
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30 - 40 m high rocks, ideal for climbing (secured with ropes) on the west side of the Berdorf-Plateau (Lias sandstone formation, early jurassic era).
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The fossilised remains of a huge Pliosaur, one of the largest marine predators to live in the Jurassic sea. The measured skull is 2.1 m long but fully assembled, it would be about 2.4 m and was recovered from a cliff fall over a period of about 5 years almost entirely by a single fossil collector. The beast was foun...
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The Charmouth landslide in April 2010. There is a gigapan image taken from this location in April 2009, things have changed considerably. During the Easter break numerous people became stuck in the quicksand flowing onto the beach; their footprints are clear to see, including the ones that stop!
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The spectacular sandstone cliffs at West Bay form part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The rocks are 180 million years old and formed in a shallow sea. Chesil beach runs from here all the way to Portland, 28km to the east and is one of the finest barrier beaches in the world. The harbour at West Bay dates...
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A Point of Geological Interest, as the highway signs describe it, just hints at the geological lessons that are laid bare here. The roadcuts that were exposed where Interstate 70 traverses the Dakota Hogback, just before rising out of Denver's western suburbs and rising into the Front Range proper, are a showcase of M...
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Just east of the San Rafael Swell this hill is composed entirely of sedimentary rocks of the dinosaur-bearing Jurassic Morrison Formation.
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