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The top of Gad Cliff offers one of the most spectacular views along the Dorset and East Devon coast World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast). Here the rocks have been folded into a huge ‘S’ shaped kink as the result of earth movements about 15 million years ago. In the foreground, Kimmeridge Clay together with Port...
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The beaches around Charmouth and Lyme Regis are world famous for fossils. I found my first ammonite here in 1973 and became a geologist as a result! I have planted 10 fossils in this view but there are many more. This is just how you find them, lying on the beach! There are ammonites, belemnites, shells, trace foss...
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View over the Devon city of Exeter from the top of the Barley Valley nature reserve.
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This is a photo of work done by Sean O'Meallie. The concept was to place chairs along the streets of Manitou Springs that represent the citizens of the community. The starkness of the empty chairs is striking. I want to thank Sean for his vision, all the volunteers for putting the chairs in place, the Business of Art C...
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A block 65cm by 45cm containing numerous fossil brittle starfish (too many to count) and some complete crinoids together with broken crinoid and starfish debris. This block contains a complex story about one point in time during the early part of the Jurassic, about 185 million years ago, when this part of the world w...
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The fossil forest is found on a terrace in the cliffs just east of Lulworth Cove. The forest dates back to the end of the Jurassic period, about 145 million years ago. At the end of the Jurassic, the sea was becoming shallower until eventually a series of islands formed surrounded by swamps. Soils developed on the i...
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Looking out over Lustleigh Cleave (to the left) and Bovey Tracey, Chudleigh Knighton and the Teign estuary (to the right). Also viewable are the clay pits out towards Kingsteignton. Taken from a car park above Yarner Forest.
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This three metre long ichthyosaur (fossil marine reptile) was discovered in December 2009 and, following gaining permissions, was extracted in early January 2010 from Broad Ledge, to the east of Lyme Regis. Preparation was complete by the end of July 2010. The ichthyosaur is almost certainly Leptopterygius tenuirostri...
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Black Ven is one of the most spectacular coastal landslides in Europe. Beyond, lies the Spittles, a series of fields that lie on an ancient landslide surface just waiting to be ‘unzipped’ by coastal erosion. The town of Lyme Regis is protected from the sea by its famous harbour, the Cobb and a new coast defence sch...
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View towards Exmouth from Cofton Country Holidays in Dawlish. www.coftonholidays.co.uk
Exmouth is a port town and seaside resort in East Devon, England, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe. It has a population of around 33,000.
Many of the landmarks can clearly be seen in the image, inclu...-
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