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Kimmeridge Bay |
Chesil Beach - 1998 storms August 2000 April 2006 April 2007
Durdle Door - April 2006 April 2007
Lulworth Cove Colchester VIth Form College AS Fieldwork Oct 2001 Lulworth Cove 4 April 2007 am. Lulworth Cove 4 April 2007 pm.
West Bay harbour engineering works Feb 2004 West Bay harbour defence works, October 2004 West Bay, harbour and cliffs, August 2005 White Nothe April 2006
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http://www.streetmap at 1:50,000
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The cliffs of Kimmeridge Bay with their level-bedded Lower Kimmeridge clays contrast with the slumped material of the foreground. The central east-west chalk ridge of the Isle of Purbeck marks the skyline. Behind the cliffs, on the left of the photo, is the Kimmeridge oil well - a real 'nodding donkey' in the Dorset countryside! The cliffs are a mixture of crumbly clay, and being more resistant, the small overhangs of bituminous shale. Harder still is the stone band dolomite, which makes up the wave-cut platform.
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Coasts Kimmeridge Bay Gaulter Gap Dorset Purbeck Erosion Oil Well Geology
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At Gaulter Gap, over an Easter holiday, a fair crowd of cars in the car park, reached by a private road (charge £2 in 1996). There was a broad range of visitors, with a strong contingent of walkers peppering the majority, who came to enjoy the beach.
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Coasts Kimmeridge Bay Gaulter Gap Dorset Purbeck Erosion Wave Cut Platform Tourism |
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Looking east into Kimmeridge Bay from GR899788. the stony and narrow beach is extended by the wave-cut platform.
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Coasts Kimmeridge Bay Gaulter Gap Dorset Purbeck Erosion Wave Cut Platform |
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This amazing wave-cut platform is Broad Bench. The photograph is taken from 897791, looking south from the path leading to Tyneham Cap, on the way to Gad Cliff. 800wavevcut1.jpg (144843 bytes)
Coasts Kimmeridge Bay Broad Bench Dorset Purbeck Erosion Wave Cut Platform |
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Dr Ian West's Field Trip to Kimmeridge http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimerbay.htm |
